From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: "Kumar" <sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg>,
	"Jordan S. Jones" <list@racistnames.com>
Subject: Re: Object description at Client Window
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:24:17 +0100
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On Friday 17 October 2003 09:44, Kumar wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Jordan, thanks for ur reply. But I am not asking that.
>
> I want to get all the column names of any table at the PgAdmin3 SQL Window.
> To make it more clear, actually i wanted to send the table name as the
> input parameter for a function and expecting the column names, data types,
> etc as the output.
>
> Is there any command or any system table from that I could query the column
> names of a table (other than \d table name at the command prompt).

Try what the man said. Start psql with -E and issue \d mytable and it will 
show you the SQL it uses to produce the table's details.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd