Hackers,
I'm trying to write a query to give me a list of the columns and/or expressions
in an index. For example, given this table:
david=# \d foo
Table "public.foo"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------+-----------+-----------
id | integer |
bar_ids | integer[] |
Indexes:
"idx_foo_stuff" btree (id, abs(id), (bar_ids[1]))
I'd like to write a query to emit:
i | coalesce
---+---------------------
0 | id
1 | abs(id)
2 | bar_ids[1]
However, it looks as if I can only get multiple expressions as a single string.
The query I've come up with is:
SELECT s.i, COALESCE(a.attname, pg_catalog.pg_get_expr( x.indexprs,
ct.oid ))
FROM pg_catalog.pg_index x
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class ct ON ct.oid = x.indrelid
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class ci ON ci.oid = x.indexrelid
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = ct.relnamespace
JOIN generate_series(0, current_setting('max_index_keys')::int - 1)
s(i)
ON x.indkey[s.i] IS NOT NULL
LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
ON ct.oid = a.attrelid
AND a.attnum = x.indkey[s.i]
WHERE ct.relname = 'foo'
AND ci.relname = 'idx_foo_stuff'
AND n.nspname = 'public'
ORDER BY s.i;
Which emits:
i | coalesce
---+---------------------
0 | id
1 | abs(id), bar_ids[1]
2 | abs(id), bar_ids[1]
Is there some way to only get the relevant index expression from indexprs,
rather than the whole expression?
Thanks,
David
PS: I need this to work all the way back to 8.1, if possible.
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