Primary key column numbers...

From: Justin Tocci <jtocci(at)tocci(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Primary key column numbers...
Date: 2005-05-31 16:49:34
Message-ID: 1E819014-574D-4D91-837D-56B71A274486@tocci.org
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What I'm trying to do is
IF the relation given is a TABLE, give the primary key column numbers.
IF the relation is a VIEW, just give an array with a '1' in it.
ELSE NULL.

Later I'll put in some hocus-pocus to be more intelligent about VIEWs
but right now this would do me fine.

I've read the docs on arrays and such, I just can't seem to put
together nor cast an array that's compatible with int2vector. There
was some notice to look at contrib/array but that has been removed in
version 8, which is what I'm using.

This is what I have so far.

SELECT indkey
FROM (SELECT relname, indkey
FROM pg_catalog.pg_index join pg_catalog.pg_class
ON pg_index.indrelid = pg_class.oid
WHERE indisprimary=true
UNION
SELECT viewname, ('{1}')::int2vector[] as indkey
FROM pg_catalog.pg_views ) t
WHERE relname = '????'

Result: ERROR: UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT could not convert type
int2vector[] to int2vector

Any help here would be appreciated.

justin tocci
fort worth, tx

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