Re: No longer possible to query catalogs for index capabilities?

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers\(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: No longer possible to query catalogs for index capabilities?
Date: 2016-08-09 15:18:10
Message-ID: 8737meashg.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

>>> Building on the has-property approach Andrew suggested, I wonder if
>>> we need something like pg_index_column_has_property(indexoid, colno,
>>> propertyname) with properties like "sortable", "desc", "nulls first".
>>
>> This seems simple enough, on the surface. Why not run with this design?

Kevin> Andrew's patch, plus this, covers everything I can think of.

Where'd be a good place to put that function? ruleutils? catalog/index.c ?

(ruleutils is way too big already)

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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