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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Marcin Krawczyk <jankes.mk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: table column names - search
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:24:11 +0100
Message-ID: <200801141824.12322.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
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Am Montag, 14. Januar 2008 schrieb Marcin Krawczyk:
> Hi all. I would like to know if there's a way to obtain a list of tables
> containing specified column name? Using standard LIKE '%string' syntax
> would be great.

SELECT table_schema, table_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE 
column_name LIKE '%name%';

Add DISTINCT and other columns to taste.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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