From: | "Brandon Aiken" <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com> |
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To: | <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Table Meta-Data |
Date: | 2007-01-25 15:03:36 |
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The information is also available through system views and system
catalogs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/catalogs.html
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Brandon Aiken
CS/IT Systems Engineer
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of A. Kretschmer
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:58 AM
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Table Meta-Data
am Thu, dem 25.01.2007, um 7:38:35 -0600 mailte Greg Lindstrom
folgendes:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Postgres 8.0 on a Gento Box and would like to access the
> information about the tables in my database. How do I access the
column
> names, data types, comments, etc?
Inside psql you can use \d table and some other commands, listed with
\?.
If you start psql with -E, you can see the underlaying SQL-commnds to
retrieve this informations.
Andreas
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