SHOW INDEXES [FROM|IN]

The statement SHOW INDEXES [FROM|IN] lists the indexes on a specified table. The statements SHOW INDEX [FROM|IN], SHOW KEYS [FROM|IN] are aliases of this statement, and included for compatibility with MySQL.

Synopsis

ShowIndexStmt:

ShowIndexKwd:

FromOrIn:

TableName:

ShowLikeOrWhereOpt:

Examples

mysql> CREATE TABLE t1 (id int not null primary key AUTO_INCREMENT, col1 INT, INDEX(col1));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec)

mysql> SHOW INDEXES FROM t1;
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | Visible | Expression |
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
| t1    |          0 | PRIMARY  |            1 | id          | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | YES
    | NULL       |
| t1    |          1 | col1     |            1 | col1        | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   | YES  | BTREE      |         |               | YES
    | NULL       |
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM t1;
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | Visible | Expression |
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
| t1    |          0 | PRIMARY  |            1 | id          | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | YES
    | NULL       |
| t1    |          1 | col1     |            1 | col1        | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   | YES  | BTREE      |         |               | YES
    | NULL       |
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW KEYS FROM t1;
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | Visible | Expression |
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
| t1    |          0 | PRIMARY  |            1 | id          | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | YES
    | NULL       |
| t1    |          1 | col1     |            1 | col1        | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   | YES  | BTREE      |         |               | YES
    | NULL       |
+-------+------------+----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

MySQL compatibility

The Cardinality column in MySQL shows the number of different values on the index. In TiDB, the Cardinality column always shows 0.

See also

• SHOW CREATE TABLE
• DROP INDEX
• CREATE INDEX