I have a script that automatically creates my database objects. In
order to automatically create indexes, it needs to first make sure they
don't exist.
For things like tables, this is easy:
select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema =
"<myschema>" and table_name = "<tablename>"
But for indexes it is hard for some reason. There's a catalog table
"pg_index", but it doesn't have index, schema or table names. I
eventually found them in pg_class but the table and schema names aren't
there.
After some searching around, I came across this very strange (to me,
anyway) "::regclass" thing that let me do this:
select * from pg_catalog.pg_index where indexrelid =
'schema.index'::regclass
I'm not really clear what's that doing, but in any case it still isn't
what I want. That query returns information when the index exists but
errors out when the index doesn't exist. Is there a way I can get a
non-erroring query on either condition that will tell me if an index
exists on a given table in a given schema?
