Thread: howto get column names of tables in a script..

howto get column names of tables in a script..

From
jerome
Date:
im using tcl a my scirpting languange is there a possibility of getting column
names of a table?

pg_tables only show the table names...

my purpose is for a report page w/c would dynamically show table column names
which would be presented in a html table format....



TIA

Re: howto get column names of tables in a script..

From
Martijn van Oosterhout
Date:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:00:59PM +0800, jerome wrote:
> im using tcl a my scirpting languange is there a possibility of getting column
> names of a table?
>
> pg_tables only show the table names...
>
> my purpose is for a report page w/c would dynamically show table column names
> which would be presented in a html table format....

If you use psql -E and do a \d tablename you will see that the relevent
table is pg_attributes.

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