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From Cédric Villemain
Subject Re: Query to generate CREATE INDEX statement from
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In response to Query to generate CREATE INDEX statement from  (Andrew Hammond <andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com>)
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2011/3/24 Andrew Hammond <andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com>:
> I'm building some partitioning support functions. I'm working on writing one
> called clone_indexes_to_partition right now. The idea is to take all the
> indexes applied to the parent and create a matching index on the child. Is
> there existing code that generates a CREATE INDEX statement given
> an indexrelid?

Yes it is :
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-info.html
pg_get_indexdef(index_oid)     get CREATE INDEX command for index

> Andrew



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