On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Shujie Shang <ssh...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> Oh, I didn't explain my question well, actually I want to create an index > on an udt in a table. > > e.g. > create type info as (id int, name text); > creat table test (i info); > I want to run: > create index myindex on test (i.id) > > > It is a matter of finding the correct level of magic parentheses. create index on test (((i).id)); The outer layer are always needed for creating indexes. The middle layer are needed because you are indexing an expression, not a column. And the inner layer is needed because, well, that is just how udt works. Cheers, Jeff