diff --git a/pkg/bench/rttanalysis/orm_queries_bench_test.go b/pkg/bench/rttanalysis/orm_queries_bench_test.go
index 181554e2cc03..66079ed2aa63 100644
--- a/pkg/bench/rttanalysis/orm_queries_bench_test.go
+++ b/pkg/bench/rttanalysis/orm_queries_bench_test.go
@@ -213,6 +213,31 @@ WHERE
 			Stmt: `SELECT nspname, pg_is_other_temp_schema(oid) FROM
                (SELECT * FROM pg_namespace LIMIT 5) n`,
 		},
+
+		{
+			Name: "information_schema._pg_index_position",
+			Setup: `CREATE TABLE indexed (
+  a INT PRIMARY KEY,
+  b INT,
+  c INT,
+  d INT,
+  INDEX (b, d),
+  INDEX (c, a)
+);
+CREATE VIEW indexes AS
+  SELECT i.relname, indkey::INT2[], indexrelid
+    FROM pg_catalog.pg_index
+    JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class AS t ON indrelid   = t.oid
+    JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class AS i ON indexrelid = i.oid
+   WHERE t.relname = 'indexed'
+ORDER BY i.relname`,
+			Stmt: `SELECT relname,
+	indkey,
+	generate_series(1, 4) input,
+	information_schema._pg_index_position(indexrelid, generate_series(1, 4))
+FROM indexes
+ORDER BY relname DESC, input`,
+		},
 	}
 
 	RunRoundTripBenchmark(b, tests)
diff --git a/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pg_builtins b/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pg_builtins
index 627d78d74e87..e9b46d03698c 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pg_builtins
+++ b/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pg_builtins
@@ -484,3 +484,56 @@ varchar  64
 bit      1
 varbit   16
 numeric  NULL
+
+# information_schema._pg_index_position
+
+statement ok
+CREATE TABLE indexed (
+  a INT PRIMARY KEY,
+  b INT,
+  c INT,
+  d INT,
+  INDEX (b, d),
+  INDEX (c, a)
+);
+
+# NOTE, we cast indkey to an INT2[], because an INT2VECTOR's formatting appears
+# to be dependent on whether the result set spilled to disk or not. It was being
+# formatted differently with the "local" test config (and others) than with the
+# "fakedist-disk" test config.
+statement ok
+CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW indexes AS
+  SELECT i.relname, indkey::INT2[], indexrelid
+    FROM pg_catalog.pg_index
+    JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class AS t ON indrelid   = t.oid
+    JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class AS i ON indexrelid = i.oid
+   WHERE t.relname = 'indexed'
+ORDER BY i.relname
+
+query TT
+SELECT relname, indkey FROM indexes ORDER BY relname DESC
+----
+primary          {1}
+indexed_c_a_idx  {3,1}
+indexed_b_d_idx  {2,4}
+
+query TTII
+SELECT relname,
+       indkey,
+       generate_series(1, 4) input,
+       information_schema._pg_index_position(indexrelid, generate_series(1, 4))
+FROM indexes
+ORDER BY relname DESC, input
+----
+primary          {1}    1  1
+primary          {1}    2  NULL
+primary          {1}    3  NULL
+primary          {1}    4  NULL
+indexed_c_a_idx  {3,1}  1  2
+indexed_c_a_idx  {3,1}  2  NULL
+indexed_c_a_idx  {3,1}  3  1
+indexed_c_a_idx  {3,1}  4  NULL
+indexed_b_d_idx  {2,4}  1  NULL
+indexed_b_d_idx  {2,4}  2  1
+indexed_b_d_idx  {2,4}  3  NULL
+indexed_b_d_idx  {2,4}  4  2
diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/pg_builtins.go b/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/pg_builtins.go
index 8a60b08b4a95..abd989903922 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/pg_builtins.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/pg_builtins.go
@@ -2082,6 +2082,52 @@ SELECT description
 			Volatility: tree.VolatilityImmutable,
 		},
 	),
+
+	// Given an index's OID and an underlying-table column number,
+	// _pg_index_position return the column's position in the index
+	// (or NULL if not there).
+	//
+	// NOTE: this could be defined as a user-defined function, like
+	// it is in Postgres:
+	// https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
+	//
+	//  CREATE FUNCTION _pg_index_position(oid, smallint) RETURNS int
+	//      LANGUAGE sql STRICT STABLE
+	//  BEGIN ATOMIC
+	//  SELECT (ss.a).n FROM
+	//    (SELECT information_schema._pg_expandarray(indkey) AS a
+	//     FROM pg_catalog.pg_index WHERE indexrelid = $1) ss
+	//    WHERE (ss.a).x = $2;
+	//  END;
+	//
+	"information_schema._pg_index_position": makeBuiltin(defProps(),
+		tree.Overload{
+			Types: tree.ArgTypes{
+				{"oid", types.Oid},
+				{"col", types.Int2},
+			},
+			ReturnType: tree.FixedReturnType(types.Int),
+			Fn: func(ctx *tree.EvalContext, args tree.Datums) (tree.Datum, error) {
+				r, err := ctx.InternalExecutor.QueryRow(
+					ctx.Ctx(), "information_schema._pg_index_position",
+					ctx.Txn,
+					`SELECT (ss.a).n FROM
+					  (SELECT information_schema._pg_expandarray(indkey) AS a
+					   FROM pg_catalog.pg_index WHERE indexrelid = $1) ss
+            WHERE (ss.a).x = $2`,
+					args[0], args[1])
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				if len(r) == 0 {
+					return tree.DNull, nil
+				}
+				return r[0], nil
+			},
+			Info:       notUsableInfo,
+			Volatility: tree.VolatilityStable,
+		},
+	),
 }
 
 func getSessionVar(ctx *tree.EvalContext, settingName string, missingOk bool) (tree.Datum, error) {