From: John Fabiani <johnf@jfcomputer.com>
Organization: J.F. Computer Solutions
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: is there a refactor
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:58:48 -0700
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On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 07:44:51 am Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:27:24 am John Fabiani wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to have a simple way to retrieve information for a field
> > name. By that I mean have some SQL select that will return all the
> > tables a field name exist within a database.  I did not find anything
> > with google but of course google depends on the search string.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Johnf
> 
> test(5432)aklaver=>SELECT table_name from information_schema.columns  where
> column_name = 'id';
>    table_name

Wow that was quick - thanks to all!

Johnf