Postgres and Indexes on Foreign Keys and Primary Keys

Question

Does Postgres automatically put indexes on Foreign Keys and Primary Keys? How can I tell? Is there a command that will return all indexes on a table?

Answer 1

This function, based on the work by Laurenz Albe at https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/index-your-foreign-key/, list all the foreign keys with missing indexes. The size of the table is shown, as for small tables the scanning performance could be superior to the index one.

--
-- function:    fkeys_missing_indexes
-- purpose:     list all foreing keys in the database without and index in the source table.
-- author:      Laurenz Albe
-- see:         https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/index-your-foreign-key/
--
create or replace function oftool_fkey_missing_indexes () 
returns table (
  src_table     regclass,
  fk_columns    varchar,
  table_size    varchar,
  fk_constraint name,
  dst_table     regclass
)
as $$
select
  -- source table having ta foreign key declaration
  tc.conrelid::regclass as src_table,
  
  -- ordered list of foreign key columns
  string_agg(ta.attname, ',' order by tx.n) as fk_columns,
  
  -- source table size
  pg_catalog.pg_size_pretty (
    pg_catalog.pg_relation_size(tc.conrelid)
  ) as table_size,
  
  -- name of the foreign key constraint
  tc.conname as fk_constraint,
  
  -- name of the target or destination table
  tc.confrelid::regclass as dst_table
  
from pg_catalog.pg_constraint tc

-- enumerated key column numbers per foreign key
cross join lateral unnest(tc.conkey) with ordinality as tx(attnum, n)

-- name for each key column
join pg_catalog.pg_attribute ta on ta.attnum = tx.attnum and ta.attrelid = tc.conrelid

where not exists (
  -- is there ta matching index for the constraint?
  select 1 from pg_catalog.pg_index i
  where 
    i.indrelid = tc.conrelid and 
    -- the first index columns must be the same as the key columns, but order doesn't matter
    (i.indkey::smallint[])[0:cardinality(tc.conkey)-1] @> tc.conkey) and 
    tc.contype = 'f'
  group by 
    tc.conrelid, 
    tc.conname, 
    tc.confrelid
  order by 
    pg_catalog.pg_relation_size(tc.conrelid) desc;
$$ language sql;

test it this way,

select * from oftool_fkey_missing_indexes();

you'll see a list like this.

fk_columns            |table_size|fk_constraint                     |dst_table        |
----------------------|----------|----------------------------------|-----------------|
id_group              |0 bytes   |fk_customer__group                |im_group         |
id_product            |0 bytes   |fk_cart_item__product             |im_store_product |
id_tax                |0 bytes   |fk_order_tax_resume__tax          |im_tax           |
id_product            |0 bytes   |fk_order_item__product            |im_store_product |
id_tax                |0 bytes   |fk_invoice_tax_resume__tax        |im_tax           |
id_product            |0 bytes   |fk_invoice_item__product          |im_store_product |
id_article,locale_code|0 bytes   |im_article_comment_id_article_fkey|im_article_locale|