Thread: How to determine the operator class that an operator belongs to

I'm trying to reconstruct create operator class statements from the
catalogs.  My problem is that access method operators are related only
to their operator families.

My current assumtion is that all operators for an operator class will
have the same left and right operand types as the data type (opcintype)
of the operator class, or will be None.

Here is my query:
-- List all operator family operators.
select am.amopfamily as family_oid,
       oc.oid as class_oid
from   pg_catalog.pg_amop am
inner join pg_catalog.pg_operator op
  on  op.oid = am.amopopr
left outer join pg_catalog.pg_opclass oc
  on  oc.opcfamily = am.amopfamily
  and (oc.opcintype = op.oprleft or op.oprleft = 0)
  and (oc.opcintype = op.oprright or op.oprright = 0)

Is my assumption correct?  Does the query seem correct?

Thanks in advance.

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Marc

Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com> writes:
> I'm trying to reconstruct create operator class statements from the
> catalogs.  My problem is that access method operators are related only
> to their operator families.

That's because operators might not be in any class.

If you really want to find this out, look in pg_depend for linkages
from operators to classes.

            regards, tom lane