From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Giulio Orsero <giulioo@pobox.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Drop all indexes of a table w/o knowing the index names
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:30:25 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411091727100.4167-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041109144039.1B2D313346@mail.golden.dom>
O Giulio Orsero Ýãñáøå óôéò Nov 9, 2004 :
> 7.4.6 on Linux.
>
> I need a way to drop all indexes of a table without knowing the names of the
> indexes.
>
> Say I have a table
>
> table1
> index1
> index2
> index3
>
> I don't want to do
>
> drop index1;
> drop index2;
> drop index3;
>
> but I want
>
> drop <all indexes of table table1>
if your are using default namespace (schema)
% tcsh
% foreach i ( `psql -t -q -c "SELECT ci.relname from pg_index i,pg_class
ci,pg_class ct where i.indexrelid=ci.oid and i.indrelid=ct.oid and
ct.relname='YOUR_TABLE_HERE'"` )
foreach? psql -c "drop index $i"
foreach? end
>
> is this possible? I looked in the manual at pg_index, but couldn't build an
> sql string to do it.
>
> Thanks
>
>
--
-Achilleus
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