raj wrote:
> Hi, Chris (great looking site, by the way)! thanks for responding. i
> was just practicing on postgres and encountered this problem. i am
> using pg admin for postgres and for some reason the commands you posted
> does not seem to work. i was kinda looking for an built-in function
> like "upper() or max()".
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/information-schema.html
specifically
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/infoschema-columns.html
So you end up with:
SELECT * from information_schema.columns where
table_name='your_table_name' and column_name='your_column_name';
There is a lot of data there, but you should be able to find what you need.
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