On 2006-12-06, "Eric B. Ridge" <ebr@tcdi.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
>> On 2006-12-06, Timasmith <timasmith@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> While pg_catalog.pg_index has the create index script I otherwise
>>> cant
>>> find the index columns in the information_schema.
>>
>> That's because there are no index columns in the information_schema.
>
> I'm just a lonely lurker here and I never saw Timasmith's original
> post -- only your response. Despite this sounding more like a -
> general topic, here's the view I use:
[...]
> Sadly, I create it in the "information_schema". It probably doesn't
> handle functional or partial indexes nicely and it is only known to
> work with PG v8.1.x. Maybe this will inspire someone to expand upon it.
Way ahead of you: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews/ (see the
source code repo, there are no releases)
(though that was written for 7.4 and 8.0, and needs some fixing for 8.1
still (though almost all of it works), and I haven't even tried it on 8.2
yet)
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