You could also do something like:
select nspname, relname, attname
from pg_attribute a
JOIN pg_class c ON (a.attrelid = c.oid)
JOIN pg_namespace n ON (n.oid = c.relnamespace)
where a.attname ~ 'yourcolumn'
and c.relname !~ 'pg'
and n.nspname not in ('pg_catalog','information_schema')
order by 1,2,3;
I'd functionalize it.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Adrian Klaver
<adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:27:24 am John Fabiani wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to have a simple way to retrieve information for a field name.
> By that I mean have some SQL select that will return all the tables a field
> name exist within a database. I did not find anything with google but of
> course google depends on the search string.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Johnf
test(5432)aklaver=>SELECT table_name from information_schema.columns where
column_name = 'id';
table_name
----------------
user_test
table2
table1
hours
jedit_test
topics
t2
stone
serial_test
messages
binary_test
user_test
timestamp_test
role_t
py_test
money_test
lock_test
local_1
lang_test
interval_test
foob
fooa
fldlength
fk_1
default_test
csv_null
check_two
check_test
array_test
(29 rows)
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