Hi,

Thank you very much for answer.
Explicit casting resolved an issue.

Just single question:
if anytextcat() and textanycat() are marked volatile,
why the database allows create index on supposedly to be volatile
expression:
create index test_val_special on test((val || ''));
?

P

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> maxim.bo...@gmail.com writes:
> > I managed create simple self-contained test case for 6658.
>
> This works fine in HEAD.  The reason it doesn't work fine in 9.1 (or
> 9.0) is that in those branches, anytextcat() and textanycat() are marked
> volatile, for reasons that were good at the time but were superseded by
> later policy changes.  So you have a subselect containing a volatile
> output expression, which prevents flattening of the subselect, so the
> restriction clause doesn't get pushed down to where it could be used
> with the index.  For some history see
>
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=c82d931dd180965a9a0c06acc764404f91de8170
>
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=aab353a60b95aadc00f81da0c6d99bde696c4b75
>
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=3db6524fe63f0598dcb2b307bb422bc126f2b15d
>
> If this is a big problem for you, you could safely adjust the
> provolatile marking of those functions by hand in 9.1.  It might be
> better just to include an explicit cast to text, though, instead of
> relying on the assumption that the system will let you concat an integer
> directly to a text string.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>



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