Re: Custom type

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:07:33 -0800
Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1(at)obviously(dot)com> threw this fish to the penguins:

> Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> > rnd=# \h comment
> > Command: COMMENT
> > Description: define or change the comment of an object
> > ..I believe this is what you need.
> >
> Cool!
> That's a great feature. Though it would be even nicer if the comment
> showed when
> you "\d" a table::

Hmm, it does(in 8.1.0) if you just say "\d+" without an argument:
newschm3=# comment on table fffg is 'the rain';
newschm3=# \d+
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner | Description
--------+--------------------------+-------+----------+-------------
public | fffg | table | postgres | the rain
public | group_run_limit | table | postgres |
public | hold_log | table | postgres |
...

But not if you specify the object:

newschm3=# \d+ fffg
Table "public.fffg"
Column | Type | Modifiers | Description
--------+---------+-----------+-------------
t | text | |
i | integer | |

This seems a bit like a bug to me...

-- George Young

> stage=# comment on table db_version is 'Managed in nautilus.xml';
> stage=# \d db_version
>
> Table "public.db_version"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> ---------+-----------------------+-----------
> version | character varying(64) |
>
>
> stage=# \dd db_version
>
> Object descriptions
> Schema | Name | Object | Description
> --------+------------+--------+-------------------------
> public | db_version | table | Managed in nautilus.xml
>
>
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