Re: [BUGS] BUG #3829: Wrong index reporting from pgAdmin III (v1.8.0 rev 6766-6767)

Added to TODO:

* Add a function like pg_get_indexdef() that report more detailed index
information

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-12/msg00166.php

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Dave Page wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We use the data in various UI elements as well as for reverse
> >> engineering the SQL - it's easier to get it broken down than to parse it
> >> back out of the complete definition.
> >
> > Seems like all the more argument for having functions that extract
> > single pieces of information, rather than several pieces (especially
> > if some pieces get left off when default).
>
> Well it might well have been if the pgAdmin code didn't already work and
> it wasn't so close to release :-)
>
> > For the moment I've reverted pg_get_indexdef() to its prior behavior
> > of printing only the index column key or expression when colno!=0.
> > We can look at having another function to do the other thing in 8.4.
>
> Thanks.
>
> /D
>
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