Re: Is there no "DESCRIBE <TABLE>;" on PGSQL? help!!!

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:24:39PM +0200, Ron de Jong wrote:
> Not even close!
>

Oh? What's it missing? the \dt display in psql has all the information
in your mythical table versionbelow, just organized a little differently,
doesn't it?

Particularly on the hackers list, if there's a feature you think is
lacking on PostgreSQL, then _describe_ it (pun intended)

Ross

> <None> wrote in message news:3bd02277$1_4(at)Usenet(dot)com(dot)(dot)(dot)
> > Hello
> >
> > psql <dbname>
> >
> > \dt employee
> >
> > Should do the trick
> >
> >
> > "Ron de Jong" <radejong(at)planet(dot)nl> wrote in
> > news:9qp2et$i7q$1(at)reader05(dot)wxs(dot)nl:
> >
> > > Any idea to get a human readable list with column descriptions like
> > > type,size,key,default,null.
> > > It would be nice if it would look simular to the mysql variant:
> > >
> > > mysql> describe employee;
> > > +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> > >| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
> > >| +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ Id
> > >| | int(11) | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | FirstName |
> > >| char(30) | | MUL | | | LastName |
> > >| char(30) | | | | | Infix |
> > >| char(10) | YES | | NULL | | Address1 |
> > >| char(30) | YES | | NULL | | PostCode |
> > >| char(10) | YES | | NULL | | Town | int(11)
> > >| | YES | | NULL | |
> > >| +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> > >
> > > Cheers, Ron.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >|int(11)&nbsp; | YES&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; |
> > >|NULL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
> > >|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
> > >|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp ;
> > >|<BR>+-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+</FO
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> > > Ron.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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