Re: [HACKERS] Is there no "DESCRIBE ;" on PGSQL? help!!!

Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:56:31 -0700

Not even close!

<None> wrote in message 3bd02277$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:3bd02277$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello
>
>
> psql <dbname>
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> \dt employee
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> Should do the trick
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> "Ron de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> 9qp2et$i7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:9qp2et$i7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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> > Any idea to get a human readable list with column descriptions like
> > type,size,key,default,null.
> > It would be nice if it would look simular to the mysql variant:
> >
> > mysql> describe employee;
> > +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> >| Field     | Type     | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
> >| +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ Id
> >|     | int(11)  |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment | FirstName |
> >| char(30) |      | MUL |         |                | LastName  |
> >| char(30) |      |     |         |                | Infix     |
> >| char(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | Address1  |
> >| char(30) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | PostCode  |
> >| char(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | Town      | int(11)
> >|  | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
> >| +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> >
> > Cheers, Ron.
> >
> >
> >
> >|int(11)&nbsp; | YES&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; |
> >|NULL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
> >|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
> >|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp ;
> >|<BR>+-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+</FO
> >|NT></FONT></DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Courier
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> > face="Courier New">Cheers,
> > Ron.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>
> >
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