>PostgreSQL mavens, can I ask the database, in a normal database query
>command, or in other words,
>essentially using the same environment where I'd say...
>
> SELECT count(*) FROM mytable [WHERE myconditions_obtain];
>
>...to get # records in my table,
>
>o How many fields mytable has as in:
> SELECT fieldcount(*) from mytable
>
In 7.4 anyhow, I bet you can do much of this with the
information_schema. This one would be ...
SELECT count(*)
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name='mytable';
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