pg_index
The pg_index
system catalog table contains part of the information about indexes. The rest is mostly in pg_class.
column | type | references | description |
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indexrelid |
oid | pg_class.oid | The OID of the pg_class entry for this index. |
indrelid |
oid | pg_class.oid | The OID of the pg_class entry for the table this index is for. |
indnatts |
smallint | The number of columns in the index (duplicates pg_class.relnatts ). |
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indisunique |
boolean | If true, this is a unique index. | |
indisclustered |
boolean | If true, the table was last clustered on this index via the CLUSTER command. |
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indisvalid |
boolean | If true, the index is currently valid for queries. False means the index is possibly incomplete: it must still be modified by INSERT operations, but it cannot safely be used for queries. |
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indkey |
int2vector | pg_attribute.attnum | This is an array of indnatts values that indicate which table columns this index indexes. For example a value of 1 3 would mean that the first and the third table columns make up the index key. A zero in this array indicates that the corresponding index attribute is an expression over the table columns, rather than a simple column reference. |
indclass |
oidvector | pg_opclass.oid | For each column in the index key, this contains the OID of the operator class to use. |
indexprs |
text | Expression trees (in nodeToString() representation) for index attributes that are not simple column references. This is a list with one element for each zero entry in indkey. NULL if all index attributes are simple references. |
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indpred |
text | Expression tree (in nodeToString() representation) for partial index predicate. NULL if not a partial index. |