Re: Is there anything like DESCRIBE?

"Mike D'Agosta" wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I have a number of empty tables and I want to get the column names and
>data types with an SQL statement. I want to do this procedurally, not
>interactively (so I can't use \d <tablename> in psql). Postgres doesn't
>support DESCRIBE... is there any other way to do this?

If you run psql with the -E option, it will show you the query it
uses when you type `\d+`. Use that query in your procedural code.

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