On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:39:47PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > CREATE INDEX indexname ON tablename ( position(' PREEMPT ' in kernel_version) ); > > The index only helps the above query with = 0 and not the one with != 0, > but it seems not needed in practice. Hrm. If you need indexing then, you'll probably have to do 2 indexes with a WHERE clause... CREATE INDEX ... WHERE position(...) = 0; CREATE INDEX ... WHERE position(...) != 0; I suspect this is because of a lack of stats for functional indexes. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461