Re: Create view that retrieves both table and column comments

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Killian Driscoll <killian(dot)driscoll(at)ucd(dot)ie>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Create view that retrieves both table and column comments
Date: 2016-02-18 21:22:11
Message-ID: 56C63603.1070905@joeconway.com
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On 02/18/2016 01:15 PM, Killian Driscoll wrote:
> On 18 February 2016 at 22:01, Joe Conway wrote:
> WHERE NOT n.nspname LIKE 'pg\_%'
> AND NOT n.nspname = 'information_schema'
> AND a.attnum > 0
> AND c.relkind = 'r'
> UNION ALL

> This works - thank you. I see in column "a.attname as column_name",
> there are a few rows with data like '......pg.dropped.3.....': what are
> these?

Those are columns that have been dropped after the table was created.
You could filter those out by adding

AND NOT a.attisdropped

into the WHERE clause before the UNION ALL

Joe

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