Обсуждение: discovering an index definition

Hi,

While "\d foo" will describe all of the fields and their
data types for the table foo, how do I do something similar
for an index?

test2=# \di i_lane_tx_tmp
       List of relations
     Name      | Type  | Owner
---------------+-------+-------
 i_lane_tx_tmp | index | me
(1 row)

This isn't enough information...

TIA,
Ron
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Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> While "\d foo" will describe all of the fields and their
> data types for the table foo, how do I do something similar
> for an index?

\d index

            regards, tom lane

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:27, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > While "\d foo" will describe all of the fields and their
> > data types for the table foo, how do I do something similar
> > for an index?
>
> \d index

Thanks.  After scrounging around the system catalogs, I can
see why that is.

HOWEVER...  That it unintuitive in the extreme!  To Joe
Programmer, this is an index, not a table...

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| "I have created a government of whirled peas..."        |
|   Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002,                   |
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