Re: SQL question

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Guillaume Houssay <ghoussay(at)noos(dot)fr>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL question
Date: 2003-06-10 05:32:42
Message-ID: 20030610053242.GC18095@svana.org
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:30:33PM +0200, Guillaume Houssay wrote:
> I found a way to have the list of all the tables for my database.
>
> Now, I would like to get the name of the columns of any table.
> I could not find the SQL command to do that.

In psql type \? to get a list of all the commands. In particular, \d
<tablename> is what you're looking for.

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