Re: ltree and ordering - what index?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 07:23:54AM +0200, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On 9/18/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > ltree is part of contrib, right?
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> yes.
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> You probably need to define a functional index of some kind. How are you
> > querying now? IIRC you'll be doing something like region IN (ltree)?
> >
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> i didn't thought about functional indices, but this might be a solution.
> have to think about it for a while
> searching through ltree's is done using specific operators (>@).

Yes, which is something I don't think the indexing code can deal with.

IIRC you're looking for a way to index something that's in a specific
place in the ltree, so you'd want to index that actual function
expression.
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