From: "omid omoomi" <oomoomi@hotmail.com>
To: Colin_Taylor@portasystems.co.uk, fNoorbakhsh@tecways.com,
	pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: Table Description!!
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:22:08 
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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 <Colin_Taylor@portasystems.co.uk>
>To: "'Fariba Noorbakhsh'" <fNoorbakhsh@tecways.com>,   
>pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>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:fNoorbakhsh@tecways.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 04 July 2001 14:54
> > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> > 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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