On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:40:22PM -0700, Niederland wrote: > I am using postgresql 8.1.4. > > Is there anyway to create an index equivalent to: > CREATE INDEX i1 ON t1 USING btree (ts::Date); > > So that indexes are used for queries when the field is cast to a date. I didn't try it, but you ought to be able to create a functional index on the to_date() of the column. I don't know if that will solve your cast issue, but you could rewrite the CAST into the to_date form to get around that. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "The year's penultimate month" is not in truth a good way of saying November. --H.W. Fowler