From: Richard Ray <rray@mstc.state.ms.us>
To: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to query by column names
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:58:23 -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701221756520.8787@rray.drdc.mstc.ms.gov> (raw)
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0701221528250.5992@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com>
This is not exactly what I need
I want to return the data in t1
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jeff Frost wrote:
> I think this is what you're looking for Richard:
>
> SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute pa, pg_class pc
> WHERE pc.relname = 't1'
> AND pa.attrelid = pc.relfilenode
> AND pa.attisdropped IS FALSE
> AND pa.attnum > 0;
>
> Let me know if it doesn't do what you intended.
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Richard Ray wrote:
>
>> This may be a simple but can I create a query such as
>>
>> select (select attname from pg_attribute where attrelid = (select
>> relfilenode from pg_class where relname = 't1') and attisdropped = false
>> and attnum > 0) from t1;
>>
>> I get
>> ERROR: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression
>>
>> Thanks
>> Richard
>>
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