Re: selecting column comment - Mailing list pgsql-general

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Subject Re: selecting column comment
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In response to selecting column comment  (Ari Kahn <resglowing@mac.com>)
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From the system catalogs:

SELECT PC.relname, PD.description
FROM pg_catalog.pg_description PD, pg_catalog.pg_class PC
WHERE PD.objoid = PC.oid AND PD.objsubid = 0


"Ari Kahn" <resglowing@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1C823FF2-FFE4-411F-B967-B9479A7A5061@mac.com...
>I have a comments on tables in my database.
>
> e.g. COMMENT ON TABLE my_schema.my_table IS 'Employee Information';
>
> I know you can get comments using \d+
>
> Is there a way to select comments?
>
> Reason: I do a lot of perl interfaces. I find escape commands do not  work
> using DBI.
>
> Thanks,
> Ari
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