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From Igor Korot
Subject [GENERAL]
Date
Msg-id CA+FnnTzb+x6nh=RhwL6B0=vnj6w9sTwn2jLD4YGGQA5Z3u5KbQ@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: [GENERAL]  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
Re: [GENERAL]  (David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Hi,
I'm trying to retrieve an information about the table. Query is below:

SELECT cols.column_name, cols.data_type,
cols.character_maximum_length, cols.character_octet_length,
cols.numeric_precision, cols.numeric_precision_radix,
cols.numeric_scale, cols,column_default, cols.is_nullable,
table_cons.constraint_type, cols.ordinal_position FROM
information_schema.columns AS cols,
information_schema.table_constraints AS table_cons WHERE
table_cons.constraint_schema = cols.table_schema AND
table_cons.table_name = cols.table_name AND cols.table_schema =
'public' AND cols.table_name = 'abcatcol' ORDER BY
cols.ordinal_position ASC;

For some reason it returns me every column multiplied instead of
giving me the column information only once and whether the field is
part of the constraint (PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY or CHECK).

It's been some time since I tried to write a big query but I think I
did it right.
And still got wrong results.

Even adding DISTINCT doesn't help.

What am I doing wrong?

Since I'm using libpq + C++ I can do multiple queries, but I thought
getting it in one shot would be preferable - less db hit.

Thank you for the help.


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