Re: DESC

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:58:44PM -0600, Mike Castle wrote:
...
> > Is there an equivalent for the SQL command DESC for listing the columns
> > and their various types? (I've played around with Oracle's sqlplus stuff
> > a very little bit and this is command existed there and from I've seen
> > so far, should be an ANSI standard.)
...
> If I understand you correctly, the only thing I know of is available in
> the psql front end. It is the \d command, as in:
>
> \d mytable

And if you start psql with option -E you will see the actual
SQL-queries used by \d.

A.

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