Re: selecting column comment

From the system catalogs:

SELECT PC.relname, PD.description
FROM pg_catalog.pg_description PD, pg_catalog.pg_class PC
WHERE PD.objoid = PC.oid AND PD.objsubid = 0

"Ari Kahn" <resglowing(at)mac(dot)com> wrote in message
news:1C823FF2-FFE4-411F-B967-B9479A7A5061(at)mac(dot)com(dot)(dot)(dot)
>I have a comments on tables in my database.
>
> e.g. COMMENT ON TABLE my_schema.my_table IS 'Employee Information';
>
> I know you can get comments using \d+
>
> Is there a way to select comments?
>
> Reason: I do a lot of perl interfaces. I find escape commands do not work
> using DBI.
>
> Thanks,
> Ari
>
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