Re: indexing timestamp fields

Christopher Browne wrote:

> teknokrat <teknokrat@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>Is it a good idea to index timestamp fields? what about date fields in
>>general?
> 
> 
> If you need to order by a timestamp, then it can be worthwhile.
> 
> If that timestamp can be null, and is rarely populated, then you might
> get a _big_ benefit from creating a partial index as with:
> 
>  create index by_some_date on my_table(some_date) where some_date is
>    not null;

I have a lot of queries of the " where timestamp < some date " type and 
was wondering if an index would improve performance. None of the 
timestamps are null and they are always populated