From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Matching the MYSQL "Describe <table-name>" command
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:02:16 +0100
Message-ID: <200504241902.16770.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> (raw)
I am rather new to Postgres (running 7.4) but I am trying to port some PHP
code that has been built to run with mysql.
I have got stuck trying to find the equivalent of the Mysql "DESCRIBE
<tablename>;" SQL statement that lists the columns and type identifiers of a
table.
I think I am going to do a SELECT on the "pg_attribute" table, but I don't
understand what the "attrelid" column of that table refers to. I need to get
the table name of the column so that I can restrict the select with a WHERE
clause so I assumed it was a key into the pg_class table, but I can't see a
column in this table that could potentially correspond and therefore I could
join to it.
Help
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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