Re: howto get column names of tables in a script.. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: howto get column names of tables in a script..
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Msg-id 20021002104736.GA6875@svana.org
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In response to howto get column names of tables in a script..  (jerome <jerome@gmanmi.tv>)
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:00:59PM +0800, jerome wrote:
> im using tcl a my scirpting languange is there a possibility of getting column
> names of a table?
>
> pg_tables only show the table names...
>
> my purpose is for a report page w/c would dynamically show table column names
> which would be presented in a html table format....

If you use psql -E and do a \d tablename you will see that the relevent
table is pg_attributes.

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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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