On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:53:47PM +0000, C G wrote: > > I'm trying to get a table containing all the user created tables, which > contains the column name and their types. Basically, I want to be able to > do "\d all_user_tables" - but I can't use the \d notation. > > I tried to combine the pg_ tables, but I couldn't get what I wanted (due to > my lack of skill). > > Any ideas?
If you start psql with the -E flag then it'll show you the SQL query it generates for the various \commands as you run them. If you're using a recent version of postgres you can probably find the data in a more version-independent way within information_schema, but I've not played with that yet. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org