Re: list all columns in db - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andy Dale
Subject Re: list all columns in db
Date
Msg-id faa313130706080034l796db1f3h5d54ed7ca35be434@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: list all columns in db  ("Peter Childs" <peterachilds@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
In this query:

select n.nspname as table_schema, c.relname as table_name,
         a.attname as column_name
     from pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
         join pg_catalog.pg_class c on ( a.attrelid = c.oid)
         join pg_catalog.pg_namespace n on (c.relnamespace = n.oid)
     where c.relkind in ('r','v') and a.attnum > 0
         and n.nspname not in ('pg_catalog','information_schema')
     order by 1,2,3

change the following:
   where c.relkind in ('r','v')
to
   where c.relkind = 'r'

Cheers,

Andy



On 08/06/07, Peter Childs <peterachilds@gmail.com> wrote:


On 07/06/07, Jon Sime <jsime@mediamatters.org > wrote:
Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a trick to list all columns in a db ?

No trickery, just exploit the availability of the SQL standard
information_schema views:

     select table_schema, table_name, column_name
     from information_schema.columns
     where table_schema not in ('pg_catalog','information_schema')
     order by 1,2,3


Is there any easy way to remove the views from the query?

Peter.
 

If you want an equivalent that uses pg_catalog (non-portable outside of
PostgreSQL) you could instead do:

     select n.nspname as table_schema, c.relname as table_name,
         a.attname as column_name
     from pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
         join pg_catalog.pg_class c on ( a.attrelid = c.oid)
         join pg_catalog.pg_namespace n on (c.relnamespace = n.oid)
     where c.relkind in ('r','v') and a.attnum > 0
         and n.nspname not in ('pg_catalog','information_schema')
     order by 1,2,3

-Jon

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Senior Systems Developer
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/

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