Does postgres have something like MySQL's DESCRIBE? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Hello,
 I'm helping to port some somewhere from MySQL to Postgres, and am
looking for an equivalent to MySQL's DESCRIBE function. Do you know of
one for Postgres? Thanks.
    -mark
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