Quoting Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Can this info be obtained by querying the system tables,
especially in the case of views? I am using 'scripting' languages and using C
will be quite awkward.

I have got to find if libpq's output is exposed in PHP or Ruby.

> Frank Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is there way to determine the table a query or a view's columns come from?
>
> Yeah, there's some support for that in the protocol.  libpq exposes it
> as PQftable() and PQftablecol().
>
>                       regards, tom lane
>




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