Re: Table Meta-Data

The information is also available through system views and system
catalogs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/catalogs.html

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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of A. Kretschmer
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:58 AM
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Table Meta-Data

am Thu, dem 25.01.2007, um 7:38:35 -0600 mailte Greg Lindstrom
folgendes:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Postgres 8.0 on a Gento Box and would like to access the
> information about the tables in my database. How do I access the
column
> names, data types, comments, etc?

Inside psql you can use \d table and some other commands, listed with
\?.

If you start psql with -E, you can see the underlaying SQL-commnds to
retrieve this informations.

Andreas
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