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Re:You might as well timestamp it by isuckatcoding on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:47AM (#26924216)
Seems like a whole lot of extra trouble to be honest. What happens when you need to create a composite index?
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Re:You might as well timestamp it by forkerenok on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:55AM (#26924247)
You can do indexes that are composites of plain field values and/or expressions! At least in Postgres.

As for the trouble, I agree, it's a bit more involved.

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