Re: Index creation question for expression (col1 || '-' || col2)

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Ying Lu <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index creation question for expression (col1 || '-' || col2)
Date: 2005-07-08 16:57:14
Message-ID: 20050708165714.GA9501@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:08:41 -0400,
Ying Lu <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> A question about creating index for the following expression.
>
> CREATE INDEX idx_t1 ON test (col1 || '-' || col2);
>
> May I know is it possible and how I may create index for the expression
> such as "col1 || '-' || col2" for a table please?

You have already received some answers to this specific question.
However, you might consider a different solution to the underlying
problem. You can make a multicolumn index that for many purposes would
be better than the above functional index.

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