BTW, will it improve something if you change your index to "my_table( id, the_date )"? Rgds, -Dimitri On 9/5/07, JS Ubei <jsubei@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to improve a query like : > > SELECT id, min(the_date), max(the_date) FROM my_table GROUP BY id; > > Stupidly, I create a B-tree index on my_table(the_date), witch is logically > not used in my query, because it's not with a constant ? isn't it ? > > I know that I can't create a function index with an aggregative function. > > How I can do ? > > thanks, > > jsubei > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Ne gardez plus qu'une seule adresse mail ! Copiez vos mails vers Yahoo! Mail > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster