Re: [GENERAL] Comments on columns? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Comments on columns?
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Msg-id 199903121830.NAA17283@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to RE: [GENERAL] Comments on columns?  (Michael Davis <michael.davis@prevuenet.com>)
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> I did that and it works great.  I would like \dd tablename to show the table
> comment and its column comments.

Yes, I would like this too, and have considered it.  The problem I have
had with system tables is that the oid of the table and columns is
generated at initdb time, and not assigned constant values as the
pg_proc entries are.

I could modify psql to show comments, but I can't figure out how to get
the system tables to show this.

In fact, the TODO list has:

  * allow pg_descriptions when creating types, tables, columns, and functions

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