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From: Bing Du <bdu@iastate.edu>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: how to show table structure?
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:05:37 -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <2094.129.186.197.127.1073689537.squirrel@mail.eng.iastate.edu> (raw)

Greetings,

How can I see the layout of a table in PostgreSQL 7.4?  I've checked
several books and on-line documents, but was not able to figure out how
PostgreSQL does 'describe <table>' like it's done in other databases.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bing

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