Thanks for the confirmation. And, I'd say that this feature would go under "nice to have" rather than anything more important. Although, it *would *be nice.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Morris de Oryx <morrisdeo...@gmail.com> writes: > > What I'm hoping for is a function like > > get_opt_class_strategy_description(optclass, straregy_number) I've > > looked at the source a bit, and it seems that there is no such > > function, and that it might well be difficult to implement. The > > strategy numbers are, as far as I can see, local to the specific > > opt_class, which has no requirement to label them in any particular > > way. > > That's correct. For btree and hash, the meanings of the strategy > numbers are determined by the index AM; but for (IIRC) all of our > other index AMs they're determined by the individual opclass. So > anything like this would have to be implemented by dedicated code > in each opclass. Perhaps that's worth doing, but it'd be a fair > amount of work. > > regards, tom lane >
