4 The catalog pg_am stores information about relation access methods.
5 There is one row for each access method supported by the system.
6 Currently, only tables and indexes have access methods. The
7 requirements for table and index access methods are discussed in detail
8 in Chapter 62 and Chapter 63 respectively.
10 Table 52.3. pg_am Columns
22 Name of the access method
24 amhandler regproc (references pg_proc.oid)
26 OID of a handler function that is responsible for supplying information
27 about the access method
31 t = table (including materialized views), i = index.
35 Before PostgreSQL 9.6, pg_am contained many additional columns
36 representing properties of index access methods. That data is now only
37 directly visible at the C code level. However,
38 pg_index_column_has_property() and related functions have been added to
39 allow SQL queries to inspect index access method properties; see