Getting result set metadata without executing query?

From: Marc Ramirez <mrami(at)mrami(dot)homeunix(dot)org>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Getting result set metadata without executing query?
Date: 2002-07-09 19:32:13
Message-ID: 20020709152808.M2712-100000@mrami.homeunix.org
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Is this possible with PostgreSQL?

In Sybase, there's a FORMATONLY option, which will not do any disk reads,
but instead return a result set with the correct columns, just no tuples.
Any facility like this in PostgreSQL?

Thanks for your time,

Marc.

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