On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:10:00PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 01:03  AM, Ron Savage wrote:
> 
> >Is there a Postgres DBI/DBD::Pg call which will retrieve the column
> >attributes the way "show columns from $table" does under MySQL?
> 
> column_info().
> 
>   http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBI/DBI.pm#column_info

I'm not sure this is supported by DBD::Pg: it's not mentioned
there (and most supported methods are).  I haven't had a chance
to try yet, though--I'll see if I can do it later.

In the meantime, $attrs= $dbh->func($table,'table_attributes')

is documented in DBD::Pg, and works well enough.

--keith

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