Reverse Engineering

Peter Harvey wrote:

Great progress today on my Reverse Engineering efforts. However; I have
some comments.

1. How can I switch databases (where I would normally use USE)?

You just open another connection .

If you mean psql jou do
\c otherdatabasename

2. How do I determine the AccessMethod specified when an index was
created?

you can parse it from pg_indexes.indexdef

A great source for reverse engineering is source of pg_dump as it has
to do all the "reverse engineering" in order to dump everything.

3. It would be cool if the catalog objects had comments on them in
pg_description. Very few do.

Yes it would :)

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Hannu

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:

Peter Harvey wrote:

2. How do I determine the AccessMethod specified when an index was
created?

you can parse it from pg_indexes.indexdef

... which relies on pg_get_indexdef(index OID).

Or, look at pg_class.relam, which is zero for regular tables and a pg_am
OID for indexes.

regards, tom lane