Re: \d output to a file

sarlav kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to write the output of the \d command on all tables in a
> database to an output file. There are more than 200 tables in the
> database. I am aware of \o command to write the output to a file.
> But, it will be tough to do the \d for each table manually and write
> the output to a file. Is there a command/ way in which I can achieve
> this without having to do it for each table? Any help in this regard
> would be really appreciated.

What is the OS? On any UNIX variant you can do:

echo '\d' | psql > outputfile

But this will get you the system tables as well I think.

Alternately you could do something like:

for table in $(<listoftables); do
echo '\d' | psql
done > outputfile

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Until later, Geoffrey