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>44.19. <TT
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>   The catalog <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_index</TT
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   about indexes.  The rest is mostly in
   <TT
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><TT
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>indexrelid</TT
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>oid</TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>The OID of the <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_class</TT
> entry for this index</TD
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>indrelid</TT
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>The OID of the <TT
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>pg_class</TT
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>indnatts</TT
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><TT
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>The number of columns in the index (duplicates
      <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_class.relnatts</TT
>)</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>indisunique</TT
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><TT
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>If true, this is a unique index</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>indisprimary</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>If true, this index represents the primary key of the table
      (<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>indisunique</TT
> should always be true when this is true)</TD
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><TT
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>indisclustered</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>If true, the table was last clustered on this index</TD
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><TT
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>indisvalid</TT
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>       If true, the index is currently valid for queries.  False means the
       index is possibly incomplete: it must still be modified by
       <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
> operations, but it cannot safely
       be used for queries. If it is unique, the uniqueness property is not
       true either
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>indcheckxmin</TT
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>       If true, queries must not use the index until the <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>xmin</TT
>
       of this <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_index</TT
> row is below their TransactionXmin
       event horizon, because the table may contain broken HOT chains with
       incompatible rows that they can see
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><TT
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>indisready</TT
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><TT
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>bool</TT
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>       If true, the index is currently ready for inserts.  False means the
       index must be ignored by <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
>
       operations
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><TT
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>indkey</TT
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><TT
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>int2vector</TT
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>.attnum</TT
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>       This is an array of <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>indnatts</TT
> values that
       indicate which table columns this index indexes.  For example a value
       of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1 3</TT
> 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
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>indclass</TT
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>oidvector</TT
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>.oid</TT
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>       For each column in the index key, this contains the OID of
       the operator class to use.  See
       <A
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>pg_opclass</TT
></A
> for details
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>indoption</TT
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>int2vector</TT
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>       This is an array of <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>indnatts</TT
> values that
       store per-column flag bits.  The meaning of the bits is defined by
       the index's access method
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>Expression trees (in <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>nodeToString()</CODE
> representation)
      for index attributes that are not simple column references.  This is a
      list with one element for each zero entry in <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>indkey</TT
>.
      NULL if all index attributes are simple references</TD
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><TT
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>Expression tree (in <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>nodeToString()</CODE
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      for partial index predicate.  NULL if not a partial index</TD
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