Re: No longer possible to query catalogs for index capabilities?

On 7/25/16 3:26 PM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> The issue I ran into was the exact same one as in the JDBC thread I
> linked to earlier: correctly interpreting pg_index.indoption (to get the
> ASC / DESC and NULLS FIRST/LAST settings), which requires knowing
> whether amcanorder is true to determine whether to look at the bits at
> all.

Maybe we should provide a facility to decode those bits then?

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