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

On Sat, Aug  6, 2016 at 04:04:41PM +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> 
>  Bruce> Would it be helpful to output an array of strings representing
>  Bruce> the index definition?
> 
>  >> Why would that help, if the point is to enable programmatic access
>  >> to information?
> 
>  Bruce> I was thinking an array of strings would avoid problems in
>  Bruce> having to re-scan the output for tokens.
> 
> OK, but that still leaves the issue of how to interpret each string,
> yes?

Yes, you still have to parse it, just not scan/tokenize it.

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