Re: simple questions

Niral Trivedi wrote:
>All,
>
>I have very simple two questions..
>
>How can we 'describe a table' and 'view all available tables' in postgres
>DB??
>
>I am looking for something similar to 'desc <TABLE>' and 'show tables' in
>MySQL or
>'desc <TABLE>' and 'select * from tab' in Oracle..

In psql:

\d lists all tables
\d table lists all columns in a table

use \? for help on psql commands and \h for help on SQL commands

Start psql with -E to see the SQL queries that \d produces.
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