From: | Marc Howard Zuckman <marc(at)fallon(dot)classyad(dot)com> |
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To: | Sascha Schumann <sas(at)schell(dot)de> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bryan White <bryan(at)arcamax(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] Functional Indexes |
Date: | 1999-02-08 02:42:23 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.02A.9902072132100.20192-100000@fallon.classyad.com |
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:27:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Bryan White" <bryan(at)arcamax(dot)com> writes:
> > > The documentation for CREATE INDEX implies that functions are allowed in
> > > index definitions but when I execute:
> > > create unique index idxtest on customer (lower(email));
> > > the result is:
> > > ERROR: DefineIndex: (null) class not found
> > > Should this work? Do I have the syntax wrong?
> >
> > I tried this wih 6.4.2 and found that it was only accepted if I
> > explicitly identified which index operator class to use:
> >
> > play=> create table customer (email text);
> > CREATE
> > play=> create unique index idxtest on customer (lower(email));
> > ERROR: DefineIndex: class not found
> > play=> create unique index idxtest on customer (lower(email) text_ops);
> > CREATE
> > play=>
> >
> > That'll do as a workaround for Bryan, but isn't this a bug? Surely
> > the system ought to know what type the result of lower() is...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
> I still have a problem with that ... edited typescript follows
>
> funweb=> \d userdat
> Table = userdat
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> | Field | Type | Length|
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> | username | varchar() not null | 30 |
> ...
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> Index: userdat_pkey
> funweb=> create unique index userdat_idx2 on userdat (lower(username)
> varchar_ops);
> ERROR: BuildFuncTupleDesc: function 'lower(varchar)' does not exist
>
> This error message looks very bogus to me.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Sascha Schumann |
> Consultant | finger sas(at)schell(dot)de
> | for PGP public key
>
I don't think lower is defined for varchar arguments. consider redefining
username as type text and using text_ops.
This method worked on my system:
stocks=> create table temptext (a text, b varchar(20));
CREATE
stocks=> create index itemptext on temptext using btree(lower(a) text_ops) ;
CREATE
Your error reproduced:
stocks=> create index i2temptext on temptext using btree(lower(b) text_ops) ;
ERROR: BuildFuncTupleDesc: function 'lower(varchar)' does not exist
Excerpt from function definitions( both return value and argument are text
types):
text |lower |text |lowercase
Marc Zuckman
marc(at)fallon(dot)classyad(dot)com
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