pg_index v7.4
This section is adapted from the WarehousePG v7.x documentation
The pg_index system catalog table contains part of the information about indexes. The rest is mostly in pg_class.
| column | type | references | description |
|---|---|---|---|
indexrelid | oid | pg_class.oid | The OID of the pg_class entry for this index |
indrelid | oid | pg_class.oid | The OID of the pg_class entry for the table this index is for |
indnatts | smallint | The number of columns in the index (duplicates pg_class.relnatts) | |
indnkeyatts | smallint | The number of key columns in the index | |
indisunique | boolean | If true, this is a unique index | |
indisprimary | boolean | If true, this index represents the primary key of the table. (indisunique should always be true when this is true.) | |
indisexclusion | boolean | If true, this index supports an exclusion constraint | |
| indimmediate | boolean | If true, the uniqueness check is enforced immediately on insertion (irrelevant if indisunique is not true) | |
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/UPDATE operations, but it cannot safely be used for queries. | |
indcheckxmin | boolean | If true, queries must not use the index until the xmin of this pg_index row is below their TransactionXmin event horizon, because the table may contain broken HOT chains with incompatible rows that they can see | |
indisready | boolean | If true, the index is currently ready for inserts. False means the index must be ignored by INSERT/UPDATE operations | |
indislive | boolean | If false, the index is in process of being dropped, and should be ignored for all purposes | |
indisreplident | boolean | If true this index has been chosen as "replica identity" using ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX ... | |
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. |
indcollation | oidvector | For each column in the index key, this contains the OID of the collation to use for the index. | |
indclass | oidvector | pg_opclass.oid | For each column in the index key this contains the OID of the operator class to use |
indoption | int2vector | This is an array of indnatts 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. This is a list with one element for each zero entry in indkey. NULL if all index attributes are simple references. | |
indpred | pg_node_tree | Expression tree (in nodeToString() representation) for partial index predicate. NULL if not a partial index. |
Parent topic: System Catalogs Definitions