Re: shouldn't all tables have Object Descriptions?

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Geoffrey <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: shouldn't all tables have Object Descriptions?
Date: 2008-01-25 20:48:13
Message-ID: 479A4B0D.8060607@iol.ie
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On 25/01/2008 19:54, Geoffrey wrote:

> Question is, why does the avlds table not have an entry in the Object
> descriptions?

According to \? in psql, \dd shows the comment on the table....so I
suppose if there's no comment, then \dd won't show one.

Comments are created by executing

COMMENT ON TABLE yourtablename IS '....comment here....';

There's no comment created by default.

Ray.

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