| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Showing index details with \d on psql |
| Date: | 2001-10-15 19:26:11 |
| Message-ID: | 21249.1003173971@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
>> Quick question - where are all these handy 'pg_get_indexdef' and friends
>> functions documented???
> I think they aren't documented because we'd rather not have them exposed
> to users, since they might change whenever it seems convenient. Whether
> this is a good strategy is another question.
My take is that they aren't documented because Jan didn't bother to
document them :-(. I think we're much better off encouraging
applications to use these functions rather than burrowing around
in the system catalogs for themselves, which seems the only alternative.
regards, tom lane
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