[SQL] Re: Is there anything like DESCRIBE?

[Ron Peterson]

Mike D'Agosta wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I have a number of empty tables and I want to get the column names and
> data types with an SQL statement. I want to do this procedurally, not
> interactively (so I can't use \d <tablename> in psql). Postgres doesn't
> support DESCRIBE... is there any other way to do this?

src/tutorial/syscat.source has some examples you might like to study.

-Ron-