| From: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
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| To: | Boulat Khakimov <boulat(at)inet-interactif(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: MySQLs Describe emulator! |
| Date: | 2001-03-06 14:55:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20010306155522.B13152@ara.zf.jcu.cz |
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:14:54AM -0500, Boulat Khakimov wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Boulat Khakimov <boulat(at)inet-interactif(dot)com> writes:
> > > Here is a nifty query I came up with
> > > that provides a detailed information on any row of any table.
> > > Something that is build into mySQL (DESC tablename fieldname)
> > > but not into PG.
> >
> > Er, what's wrong with psql's "\d table" ?
>
> 2) as a programmer I need to be able to find out as much info as
> possible about any given field
> which is what "describe" for in mySQL.
As a programmer you can see psql source and directly found how SQL
query execute this tool. The PostgreSQL needn't non-standard statements
like MySQL's SHOW, DESC -- the postgreSQL has system catalogs.
Karel
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