Re: [despammed] \d output to a file

Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> am 15.12.2004, um 6:38:22 -0800 mailte sarlav kumar folgendes:
>
>>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.
>
>
> You can write a little shell-script to list all tables via \d and parse
> the output to generate for each table a '\d table'.

Or:

for table in $(<filethatcontainsalistofthetables); do

echo "\d $table" | psql $DATABASE > ${table}.out
done

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Until later, Geoffrey