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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 21:38:53 -0500
From: Boulat Khakimov <boulat@inet-interactif.com>
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Hi,

Im porting my programs from mySQL to PG.
mySQL supports  a query "DESCRIBE tablename fieldname" , that provides a
detailed
description of a specific table field.

Is there such an equivalent in PG?
"\d tablename" gives description for all the fields in the table,
however I need to find
out a description for a specific field only.


Regards,
Boulat