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From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: How can I select a comment on a column?
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Msg-id 20070327041009.GB96360@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to How can I select a comment on a column?  (Serguei Pronkine <pronkine@krikri.de>)
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:37:59PM +0200, Serguei Pronkine wrote:
> How can I now retrieve column number from column name?

Query pg_attribute.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/catalog-pg-attribute.html

Since psql can display object comments you could study the SQL that
it executes:

\set ECHO_HIDDEN
\d+ mytab

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Michael Fuhr

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