> Hello,
>
> I was wondering what kind of functions/constants exist in Postgre to dig
up
> metadata. I barely scratched the surface of Oracle but I know you find
> things like user_tables there that can be used to extract info about your
> tables. What I'm looking for is some kind of functions to extract column
> names, possibly data types, etc. And by that I don't mean console
commands,
> sql statements that will do the job with tcp/ip.
>
> Moreover, are there any ANSI standards for this kind of thing? Or each one
> to his own?
>
>
> Martin
>
