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

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> 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)
>

agreed.
besides, what he want can be obtained by making queries to the system tables.
just have to look through them a bit.

> 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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