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

Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:00:11 -0700

Hello

psql <dbname>

\dt employee

Should do the trick





"Ron de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
9qp2et$i7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:9qp2et$i7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> 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
> New"></FONT></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
> face="Courier New">Cheers, 
> Ron.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML> 
> 
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