| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 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: | 2016-08-06 15:13:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20160806151328.GH26927@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 04:04:41PM +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>
> Bruce> Would it be helpful to output an array of strings representing
> Bruce> the index definition?
>
> >> Why would that help, if the point is to enable programmatic access
> >> to information?
>
> Bruce> I was thinking an array of strings would avoid problems in
> Bruce> having to re-scan the output for tokens.
>
> OK, but that still leaves the issue of how to interpret each string,
> yes?
Yes, you still have to parse it, just not scan/tokenize it.
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