Re: Re: MySQLs Describe emulator!

* Boulat Khakimov <boulat(at)inet-interactif(dot)com> [010306 07:24] wrote:
>
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:14:54AM -0500, Boulat Khakimov wrote:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Boulat Khakimov <boulat(at)inet-interactif(dot)com> writes:
> > > > > Here is a nifty query I came up with
> > > > > that provides a detailed information on any row of any table.
> > > > > Something that is build into mySQL (DESC tablename fieldname)
> > > > > but not into PG.
> > > >
> > > > Er, what's wrong with psql's "\d table" ?
> > >
> > > 2) as a programmer I need to be able to find out as much info as
> > > possible about any given field
> > > which is what "describe" for in mySQL.
> >
> > As a programmer you can see psql source and directly found how SQL
> > query execute this tool. The PostgreSQL needn't non-standard statements
> > like MySQL's SHOW, DESC -- the postgreSQL has system catalogs.

FreeBSD has had some great successes because we're able to emulate
Linux, perhaps something in contrib or even the base system could
offer a MySQL compatibility module to help people ease into Postgresql
from Mysql?

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]