Re: column information from view

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:47:07 -0700,
Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:

> SELECT cols.ordinal_position, cols.column_name,
> col_description(cl.oid, cols.ordinal_position::INT)
> FROM pg_class cl, information_schema.columns cols
> WHERE cols.table_catalog='aquaculture' AND cols.table_schema ilike
> 'pg_temp%' AND
> cols.table_name = 'c_data' AND cols.table_name = cl.relname
> ORDER BY cols.ordinal_position::INT;

> ordinal_position | column_name | col_description
> ------------------+----------------+-----------------
> 1 | source_id | NULL
> 2 | geography_desc | NULL

Exactly, except that the column descriptions reside in the persistent
view whereas the above pulls them from the temporary view, which are all
NULL.

Always learning something here.

Thanks,
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Seb