Re: Add custom properties to a column's definition (pg_attribute)

On 09/01/2014 20:16, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 20:08, Brooke Beacham wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a way to associate a set of custom properties
>> (key/value pairs) with a column's definition (ie pg_attribute)?
>>
>> (without having to replicate/maintain a table of columns separately from
>> the system catalog)
>>
>> For example:
>> * I have a table with 50 columns
>> * I'd like to 'flag' 30 of those columns as group - 'A' and the other 20
>> as group - 'B'
>>
>>
>> So I'd like a way to add custom metdata (k/v pairs) to a column's
>> definition (not the actual rows of data).
>
> You could use the comment facility -
>
> COMMENT ON COLUMN tablename.columnname IS IS '....';

Whoops, sorry, an extra "is" got in there.... should have been:

COMMENT ON COLUMN tablename.columnname IS '....';

Ray.

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