Re: creating an index on a function

From: "Nick Fankhauser" <nickf(at)ontko(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, "PGSQL-SQL" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: creating an index on a function
Date: 2002-02-15 16:27:57
Message-ID: NEBBLAAHGLEEPCGOBHDGOELIEFAA.nickf@ontko.com
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Tom, Brent-

Thanks for the thoughtful responses. I now understand why it didn't work and
what I need to change about my approach.

> This raises a subtle point that you'd better think about before you go
> too far in this direction: truncating a timestamp to date is not a very
> well-defined operation, because it depends on the timezone setting.

That's a good point. Fortunately, in this specific application the events
are selected by location as a part of the same operation, so I *think* I'll
be OK- However, there are some other application functions I'm contemplating
for the future which would really get mangled if I lost my TZ information.

Regards,

-Nick

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