Re: Create view that retrieves both table and column comments - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Killian Driscoll
Subject Re: Create view that retrieves both table and column comments
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Msg-id CAFTc7Ac=Yhf2UVrQgSEfDnHPc2OGB1phaYVz4hFfB_KHY+ZUFQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Create view that retrieves both table and column comments  (Killian Driscoll <killian.driscoll@ucd.ie>)
Responses Re: Create view that retrieves both table and column comments  (Killian Driscoll <killian.driscoll@ucd.ie>)
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On 18 February 2016 at 22:31, Killian Driscoll <killian.driscoll@ucd.ie> wrote:


On 18 February 2016 at 22:22, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
On 02/18/2016 01:15 PM, Killian Driscoll wrote:
> On 18 February 2016 at 22:01, Joe Conway wrote:
>     WHERE NOT n.nspname LIKE 'pg\_%'
>     AND NOT n.nspname = 'information_schema'
>     AND a.attnum > 0
>     AND c.relkind = 'r'
>     UNION ALL

> This works - thank you. I see in column "a.attname as column_name",
> there are a few rows with data like '......pg.dropped.3.....': what are
> these?

Those are columns that have been dropped after the table was created.
You could filter those out by adding

  AND NOT a.attisdropped

into the WHERE clause before the UNION ALL

Joe
Perfect, thank you,

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