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From: "Philip Rudling" <psr@clara.net>
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Subject: sql statement to give functionality of \d tablename?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:03:41 +0100
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Is the an SQL statement that can be used from within a program that will
give the output of \d command?  Like the describe command in MySQL's version
of SQL?

SR