Re: How to display structure of a table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris Green
Subject Re: How to display structure of a table
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Msg-id 20041125104733.GK539@areti.co.uk
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In response to How to display structure of a table  (Nageshwar Rao <NageshwarR@PLANETASIA.COM>)
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:08:30PM +0530, Nageshwar Rao wrote:
>    I have created a table and would like to display the structure to find
>    out datatype and length.
>
>    Just like in Oracle describe table_name;

in psql:-

    \dt

Basically the \d commands in psql give you much of what DESCRIBE does
for Oracle and mysql.  \? to see all the \ commands.

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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

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