[SQL] Is there anything like DESCRIBE?

[Mike D'Agosta]

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?

Thanks!
Mike