Re: Column names

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:26, Kelvin Varst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I make a simple "SELECT * FROM table;" query, is there somewhere in
> that query I can find the names of the columns?

In PHP if you get the rows with:

$row = pg_Fetch_Object( $result, $rownum);

You will be able to refer to them by name as $row->fieldname
$row->otherfield and so on.

This is very useful :-)

Otherwise, if you want to know the column names, something like:

SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = (SELECT oid FROM
pg_class WHERE relname = 'mytable') AND attnum > 0 ORDER BY attnum;

will get them for you.

Regards,
Andrew.
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