Andy Colson wrote > On 11/13/2014 3:46 PM, Guyren Howe wrote: >> I want to do something that is perfectly satisfied by an hstore column. >> *Except* that I want to be able to do fast (ie indexed) <, > etc >> comparisons, not just equality. >> >> From what I can tell, there isn’t really any way to get hstore to do >> this, so I’ll have to go to a key-value table. But I thought I’d ask just >> in case I’m missing something. >> > > I think your missing something. > > Is it one field in the hstore? Did you try an expression index? > > create index cars_mph on cars ( (data->'mph') ); > > thats a btree index, which should support < and >. (Although I've never > tried it) With the one caveat that everything in hstore is a string so you'd probably want to add an appropriate cast to the expression. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/hstore-but-with-fast-range-comparisons-tp5826886p5826898.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
