[ADMIN] Re: [GENERAL] simple questions

2000-12-17 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Niral Trivedi wrote: > I have very simple two questions.. > > How can we 'describe a table' and 'view all available tables' in postgres > DB?? > > I am looking for something similar to 'desc ' and 'show tables' in > MySQL or > 'desc ' and 'select * from tab' in Oracle.. If y

[ADMIN] raw data in a 6.5.3 table

2000-12-17 Thread james
hello, i've got a simple table whose fields are mostly ascii. one field is a floating or money datatype (the person who gave me the table doesn't know which). the problem is that i need to know how to convert the raw data of the floating or money datatype into the numbers that it represents. i ha