From: Ragnar <gnari@hive.is>
To: AKHILESH GUPTA <akhilesh.davim@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] to count no of columns in a table
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:40:36 +0000
Message-ID: <1140082836.32324.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad39daf90602160113u710dbdafq56359adfe8aee572@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ad39daf90602160113u710dbdafq56359adfe8aee572@mail.gmail.com>
On fim, 2006-02-16 at 14:43 +0530, AKHILESH GUPTA wrote:
> i just want to know one thing that is there any function in PGSQL
> which gives me the total number of columns in a table.
> OR
> just like we are using count(*), it gives us total number or rows in a
> table, just like i want to know the total number of columns present in
> the table
this is the kind of thing the information_schema is for
select count(*) from information_schema.columns
where table_name='x';
gnari
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