PG_INDEX
PG_INDEX records part of index information. The rest is mostly recorded in PG_CLASS.
Table 1 PG_INDEX columns
Name | Type | Description |
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indexrelid | oid | OID of the PG_CLASS entry for this index |
indrelid | oid | OID of the PG_CLASS entry for the table that uses this index |
indnatts | smallint | Number of columns in the index |
indisunique | Boolean | Unique index if the value is true |
indisprimary | Boolean | Primary key of the table if the value is true. indisunique should always be true when the value of this column is true. |
indisexclusion | Boolean | Whether the index supports exclusion constraints |
indimmediate | Boolean | Whether a uniqueness check is performed upon data insertion |
indisclustered | Boolean | Whether the table was last clustered on this index |
indisusable | Boolean | Whether the index supports insert/select |
indisvalid | Boolean | Whether the index is valid for queries. If this column is false, the index is possibly incomplete and must still be modified by INSERT/UPDATE operations, but it cannot safely be used for queries. If it is a unique index, the uniqueness property is also not true. |
indcheckxmin | Boolean | If the value is true, queries must not use the index until the xmin of this row in PG_INDEX is below their TransactionXmin, because the table may contain broken HOT chains with incompatible rows that they can see. |
indisready | Boolean | The index is available for inserted data if the value is true. Otherwise, this index is ignored when data is inserted or modified. |
indkey | int2vector | This is an array of indnatts values indicating that this index creates table columns. For example, a value of 1 3 indicates that the first and the third columns make up the index key. The value 0 in this array indicates that the corresponding index attribute is an expression over the table columns, rather than a simple column reference. |
indcollation | oidvector
| ID of each column used by the index |
indclass | oidvector | For each column in the index key, this contains the OID of the operator class to use. See PG_OPCLASS for details. |
indoption | int2vector | Array of values that store per-column flag bits. The meaning of the bits is defined by the index's access method. |
indexprs | pg_node_tree | Expression trees (in nodeToString() representation) for index attributes that are not simple column references. It is a list with one element for each zero entry in INDKEY. The value is NULL if all index attributes are simple references. |
indpred | pg_node_tree | Expression tree (in nodeToString() representation) for partial index predicate. If the index is not a partial index, this column is an empty string. |
indisreplident | Boolean | If the value is true, the column of this index becomes the decoded column of logical decoding. |
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