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Listing indexes in Postgres
Indexing is a technique in databases that can help speed up searches. When managing a database, depending on the workload that will run on the database, you might decide to create indexes for certain tables.
In this example, let’s imagine you manage a library, and thus we have tables to manage books, customers, and employees.
Each of these tables may have indexes depending on their workloads.
Later you might want to see what indexes exist in that table.
Postgres indexThere are 2 different methods to list down all the indexes present in the Postgres database - using command and using SQL query. In this tutorial, we will examine these two techniques and understand their differences.
The command
Step 1 - Open your terminal and connect it to your desired Postgres database.
Follow our guide to set up the connection with the database.
Step 2 - To list down all the indexes, use the command.
This command returns the table of all indexes present in the database consisting of details like Schema, Name, Type, Owner, and Table.
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