Re: Question Again

"Cristian D. GAL" wrote:
>
> >> is there a solution to find infos about a table?
> >> eg: I want to know what field names and their types has a certain table
> >> from a db.
>
> I read TFM and found -c option to 'psql' and came up with this trick:
>
> #!/some/where/perl
> use CGI qw(:standard);
>
> my $table = param('table');
> my $fields = `psql $DBNAME -h $DBHOST -U $DBUSER -c \"\\d $table\" -q`;
> print $fields;
> ..
>
> is there something a little more elegant than this?

strings /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql

Will give you a useful reference to the actual database queries behind
that \d, or you could look at the source, of course!

psql may not be in that location if you don't use Debian, of course :-)

Cheers,
                    Andrew.
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