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

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: No longer possible to query catalogs for index capabilities?
Date: 2016-08-02 19:58:09
Message-ID: 20160802195809.GE32575@momjian.us
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On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:19:43AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> As far as I understood Andrew's use case, he was specifically *not*
> interested in a complete representation of an index definition, but
> rather about whether it had certain properties that would be of
> interest to query-constructing applications.

Would it be helpful to output an array of strings representing the index
definition?

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