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From: Colin Taylor <[email protected]>
To: 'omid omoomi' <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Table Description!!
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:29:43 +0100
Message-ID: <4BDEC5E174E9D411B5BD00AA00AD07B009B3EB@SERVER3> (raw)

Check out http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-comment.html.
I got my knowledge from the PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts book.
HTH,
Colin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: omid omoomi [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, 05 July 2001 14:22
> To: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Table Description!!
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I couldn't find such a thing.
> May be better if having a copy from pg_tables and add a 
> description column 
> to that:
> 
> Create table foo as Select * from pg_tables;
> Alter table foo add col descript text ;
> 
> HTH
> Omid
> 
> >From: Colin Taylor <[email protected]>
> >To: "'Fariba Noorbakhsh'" <[email protected]>,   
> >[email protected]
> >Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Table Description!!
> >Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:08:55 +0100
> >
> >You could use the "COMMENT" command.
> >Something like:
> >COMMENT ON TABLE <table name> IS '<comment>';
> >
> >HTH,
> >Colin
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Fariba Noorbakhsh [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 04 July 2001 14:54
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [GENERAL] Table Description!!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I want to have a description for tables in my DB(Postgresql DB).
> > > Is there any way to put description of tables in Postgresql
> > > DB or not?!
> > >
> > > Thanks in Advance,
> > > Fariba
> > >
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