Re: Get table catalog from pg_indexes

David,

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 12:55 PM David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 11:42 AM Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> It doesn't say anything about "current" DB - only the DB.
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> Yes, but you must be connected to some database in order to execute this command: "the database" refers to this database you are connected to.

Yes, I am and I get that.

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> The catalogs are not information_schema.
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>> However, I think I can try "SELECT 1 FROM <catalog>.pg_indexes...".
>> Will this work?
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> What is that even supposed to mean? It also seems simple enough to just do that asking "will this work" is a waste of time. Just try it.

Apparently it looks like this query fails to execute.
I am connected to the "draft" database and running

SELECT 1 FROM draft.pg_indexes;

gives:

[quote]
ERROR:schema "draft" does not exist
[/quote]

Thank you/

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> David J.