pg_index#

The pg_index system catalog table contains part of the information about indexes. The rest is mostly in pg_class_internal.

Table 1. pg_catalog.pg_index

column

type

references

description

indexrelid

oid

pg_class_internal_internal.oid

The OID of the pg_class_internal entry for this index.

indrelid

oid

pg_class_internal.oid

The OID of the pg_class_internal entry for the table this index is for.

indnatts

smallint

The number of columns in the index (duplicates pg_class_internal.relnatts).

indisunique

boolean

If true, this is a unique index.

indisclustered

boolean

If true, the table was last clustered on this index via the CLUSTER command.

indisvalid

boolean

If true, the index is currently valid for queries. False means the index is possibly incomplete: it must still be modified by INSERT operations, but it cannot safely be used for queries.

indkey

int2vector

pg_attribute.attnum

This is an array of indnatts values that indicate which table columns this index indexes. For example a value of 1 3 would mean that the first and the third table columns make up the index key. A zero in this array indicates that the corresponding index attribute is an expression over the table columns, rather than a simple column reference.

indclass

oidvector

pg_opclass.oid

For each column in the index key, this contains the OID of the operator class to use.

indexprs

text

Expression trees (in nodeToString() representation) for index attributes that are not simple column references. This is a list with one element for each zero entry in indkey. NULL if all index attributes are simple references.

indpred

text

Expression tree (in nodeToString() representation) for partial index predicate. NULL if not a partial index.