Re: Object description at Client Window

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: "Kumar" <sgnerd(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg>, "Jordan S(dot) Jones" <list(at)racistnames(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Object description at Client Window
Date: 2003-10-17 09:24:17
Message-ID: 200310171024.17494.dev@archonet.com
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On Friday 17 October 2003 09:44, Kumar wrote:
> 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).

Try what the man said. Start psql with -E and issue \d mytable and it will
show you the SQL it uses to produce the table's details.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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