Re: Information about columns - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: Information about columns
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Msg-id 1245674589.15330.2.camel@ayaki
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In response to Information about columns  (Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 05:26 -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote:

> Is there some way to find out meta-information about the columns generated
> by any SELECT query?

How are you talking to the database ? ODBC? JDBC? LibPQ? Something else?
Or do you want this from within PL/PgSQL ?

You'll usually find that this information is most easily obtained via
your client driver. I don't know if it's exposed at the SQL level, but
it's certainly available from the underlying PostgreSQL network
protocol.

--
Craig Ringer


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