Re: MySQLs Describe emulator!

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:14:54AM -0500, Boulat Khakimov wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Boulat Khakimov <boulat@inet-interactif.com> writes:
> > > Here is a nifty query I came up with
> > > that provides a detailed information on any row of any table.
> > > Something that is build into mySQL (DESC tablename fieldname)
> > > but not into PG.
> >
> > Er, what's wrong with psql's "\d table" ?
>
> 2) as a programmer I need to be able to find out as much info as
> possible about any given field
>    which is what "describe" for in mySQL.

 As a programmer you can see psql source and directly found how SQL
query execute this tool. The PostgreSQL needn't non-standard statements
like MySQL's SHOW, DESC -- the postgreSQL has system catalogs.

        Karel

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