docs: def build_indexes(connection, verbose = False):
  	"""
  	Using the how_to_index annotations in the table class definitions,
  	construct a set of indexes for the database at the given
  	connection.
  	"""
  	cursor = connection.cursor()
  	for table_name in get_table_names(connection):
  		# FIXME:  figure out how to do this extensibly
  		if table_name in TableByName:
  			how_to_index = TableByName[table_name].how_to_index
  		elif table_name in lsctables.TableByName:
  			how_to_index = lsctables.TableByName[table_name].how_to_index
  		else:
  			continue
  		if how_to_index is not None:
  			if verbose:
  				print >>sys.stderr, "indexing %s table ..." % table_name
  			for index_name, cols in how_to_index.iteritems():
  				cursor.execute("CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS %s ON %s (%s)" % (index_name, table_name, ",".join(cols)))
  	connection.commit()