Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I noticed the new expression functionality of indices and while 
> implementing them in pgadmin3 was wonderingnow to extract the definition 
> from the catalog.

The best way is to use pg_get_indexdef(indexOID), same as pg_dump and
psql do.

>     CREATE INDEX foo ON bar (numcol, length(txtcol), intcol2, 
> length(txtcol2))

>     indkey will contain 1 0 4

Actually it should be read as 1 0 4 0.  The output converter for
int2vector suppresses trailing zeroes, for largely-historical reasons.

                        regards, tom lane

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