Re: Object description at Client Window

Hi ,

Jordan, thanks for ur reply. But I am not asking that.

I want to get all the column names of any table at the PgAdmin3 SQL Window. To make it more clear, actually i wanted to send the table name as the input parameter for a function and expecting the column names, data types, etc as the output.

Is there any command or any system table from that I could query the column names of a table (other than \d table name at the command prompt).

Kumar
----- Original Message -----
From: Jordan S. Jones
To: Kumar
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Object description at Client Window

give psql -E a try.. It will display any internal SQL commands that it uses.

Jordan S. Jones

Kumar wrote:

Dear Friends,

I am working with Postgres 7.3.4 on RH linux 7.2.

I could get into the command prompt to describe a table structure.

Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

training=# \d emp
Table "emp"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+-----------------------+-----------
no | integer |
name | character varying(20) |
age | integer |

training=#

But I wanted to know whether this description could be availed at the command prompt. I am using PgAdmin3. I have checked the systems tables also. pg_tables can tell us only the table and the columns inside tables.

Any idea to share with me, please. I am looking for something like sp_helptext in MS SQL server.

Regards
Kumar

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