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* How to get table definition of a PostgreSQL table
@ 2006-10-27 06:25 Sandeep Khandelwal <sandeep_khandelwal27@yahoo.com>
2006-10-27 10:53 ` Re: How to get table definition of a PostgreSQL table Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
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From: Sandeep Khandelwal @ 2006-10-27 06:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-interfaces
Hi.
I would like to get field's name, datatype of each field, length of each field and precision of each field of a PostgreSQL table. Please let me SQL query to get this information.
Thanks,
Sandeep
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* Re: How to get table definition of a PostgreSQL table
2006-10-27 06:25 How to get table definition of a PostgreSQL table Sandeep Khandelwal <sandeep_khandelwal27@yahoo.com>
@ 2006-10-27 10:53 ` Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
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From: Sean Davis @ 2006-10-27 10:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-interfaces; +Cc: Sandeep Khandelwal <sandeep_khandelwal27@yahoo.com>
On Friday 27 October 2006 02:25, Sandeep Khandelwal wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I would like to get field's name, datatype of each field, length of each
> field and precision of each field of a PostgreSQL table. Please let me SQL
> query to get this information.
See these two chapters in the postgresql docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/catalogs.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/information-schema.html
Each has advantages over the other.
Also, if you start psql with the flag --echo-hidden, when you do commands like
\dt and \d+, psql will show you the sql it uses to produce that output.
Sean
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* Re: How to get table definition of a PostgreSQL table
@ 2006-10-31 10:41 Sandeep Khandelwal <sandeep_khandelwal27@yahoo.com>
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From: Sandeep Khandelwal @ 2006-10-31 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sdavis2@mail.nih.gov; pgsql-interfaces
Thank you so much Sean.
Sandeep
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From: Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: Sandeep Khandelwal <sandeep_khandelwal27@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:23:18 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] How to get table definition of a PostgreSQL table
On Friday 27 October 2006 02:25, Sandeep Khandelwal wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I would like to get field's name, datatype of each field, length of each
> field and precision of each field of a PostgreSQL table. Please let me SQL
> query to get this information.
See these two chapters in the postgresql docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/catalogs.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/information-schema.html
Each has advantages over the other.
Also, if you start psql with the flag --echo-hidden, when you do commands like
\dt and \d+, psql will show you the sql it uses to produce that output.
Sean
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