Re: Querying an index's btree version

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:26 PM Darren Lafreniere
<dlafreniere(at)onezero(dot)com> wrote:
> We've read that PG 12 has improved btree index support, and that the latest internal btree version was bumped from 3 to 4. Is it possible to query the btree version that a particular index is using? We'd like to automatically start a concurrent re-index if we detect any btree indexes are still on version 3.

It's possible, but you have to install the superuser-only pageinspect
extension. Here is how you'd determine that an index called
'pg_aggregate_fnoid_index' is on version 4:

regression=# create extension pageinspect;
CREATE EXTENSION
regression=# select version from bt_metap('pg_aggregate_fnoid_index');
version
---------
4
(1 row)

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Peter Geoghegan