Re: Quick Date/Time Index Question

"David Johnston" <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> I have a database field that stores a timestamp to second+ precision;
> however, I want to search against it only to day precision. If I leave the
> field in second precision and try to "WHERE field BETWEEN date0 AND date0" I
> get no results (OK, fine) but then I cast the field to date "WHERE
> field::date BETWEEN date0 AND date0" and get the expected results. So now I
> want to index "field::date" by I cannot create a functional index on
> "field::date" OR "CAST(field AS date)" OR "date_trunc('day',field)" due to
> either syntax (::) or non-IMMUTABLE function errors (cast; date_trunc).

> Is there some other way to create an index on only the "date" portion of the
> field? Is it even necessary since any index ordered on timestamp is also,
> by definition, order on date as well?

Not necessarily a direct answer, but have you tried querying
"WHERE field >= date0 AND field < (date0 + 1)"?

Tim