SHOW INDEX

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The SHOW INDEX statement returns index information for a table.

Required privileges

The user must have any privilege on the target table.

Aliases

In CockroachDB, the following are aliases for SHOW INDEX:

  • SHOW INDEXES
  • SHOW KEYS

Synopsis

SHOW INDEX INDEXES KEYS FROM table_name

Parameters

Parameter Description
table_name The name of the table for which you want to show indexes.

Response

The following fields are returned for each column in each index.

Field Description
table_name The name of the table.
index_name The name of the index.
non_unique Whether or not values in the indexed column are unique. Possible values: true or false.
seq_in_index The position of the column in the index, starting with 1.
column_name The indexed column.
direction How the column is sorted in the index. Possible values: ASC or DESC for indexed columns; N/A for stored columns.
storing Whether or not the STORING clause was used to index the column during index creation. Possible values: true or false.
implicit Whether or not the column is part of the index despite not being explicitly included during index creation. Possible values: true or false

At this time, primary key columns are the only columns that get implicitly included in secondary indexes. The inclusion of primary key columns improves performance when retrieving columns not in the index.

Example

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> CREATE TABLE t1 (
    a INT PRIMARY KEY,
    b DECIMAL,
    c TIMESTAMP,
    d STRING
  );
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> CREATE INDEX b_c_idx ON t1 (b, c) STORING (d);
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> SHOW INDEX FROM t1;
+------------+------------+------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+---------+----------+
| table_name | index_name | non_unique | seq_in_index | column_name | direction | storing | implicit |
+------------+------------+------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+---------+----------+
| t1         | primary    |   false    |            1 | a           | ASC       |  false  |  false   |
| t1         | b_c_idx    |    true    |            1 | b           | ASC       |  false  |  false   |
| t1         | b_c_idx    |    true    |            2 | c           | ASC       |  false  |  false   |
| t1         | b_c_idx    |    true    |            3 | d           | N/A       |  true   |  false   |
| t1         | b_c_idx    |    true    |            4 | a           | ASC       |  false  |   true   |
+------------+------------+------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+---------+----------+
(5 rows)

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