Re: Quick question - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Quick question
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Msg-id 18401.1065189574@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Quick question  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> If someone could help me with this, it would be cool.  How do I query 
> the catalogs to find the underlying index for a constraint?  (Assuming 
> the constraint is primary or unique)

A first approximation is that the constraint and the index have the same
name, but I suppose someone could break that association by renaming the
index.  Look in pg_depend for an internal dependency entry from the
index to the constraint if you want to be sure.
        regards, tom lane


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