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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: find all tables with a specific column name?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:03:56 -0500
Message-ID: <20060421180356.GB13275@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604210928220.1527@glacier.frostconsultingllc.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604210928220.1527@glacier.frostconsultingllc.com>

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:29:33 -0700,
  Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> wrote:
> Is there a reasonable way to extract a list of all tables which contain a 
> specific column name from the system views on 8.1?
> 
> For instance, I might want to enumerate all tables with a column named 
> last_modified.

Take a look at:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/infoschema-columns.html
and
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/infoschema-schema.html

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