Re: to count no of columns in a table - Mailing list pgsql-sql

On fim, 2006-02-16 at 14:43 +0530, AKHILESH GUPTA wrote:
> i just want to know one thing that is there any function in PGSQL
> which gives me the total number of columns in a table.
> OR
> just like we are using count(*), it gives us total number or rows in a
> table, just like i want to know the total number of columns present in
> the table

this is the kind of thing the information_schema is for

  select count(*) from information_schema.columns
                  where table_name='x';


gnari