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 20041125112758.GB824@areti.co.uk
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In response to Re: How to display structure of a table  (Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk>)
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:47:33AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 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
>
That's "\dt <tablename>" of course.

> 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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