On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:24:39PM +0200, Ron de Jong wrote:
> Not even close!
> 

Oh? What's it missing? the \dt display in psql has all the information
in your mythical table versionbelow, just organized a little differently,
doesn't it?

Particularly on the hackers list, if there's a feature you think is 
lacking on PostgreSQL, then _describe_ it (pun intended)

Ross

> <None> wrote in message news:3bd02277$1_4@Usenet.com...
> > Hello
> >
> > psql <dbname>
> >
> > \dt employee
> >
> > Should do the trick
> >
> >
> > "Ron de Jong" <radejong@planet.nl> wrote in
> > news:9qp2et$i7q$1@reader05.wxs.nl:
> >
> > > Any idea to get a human readable list with column descriptions like
> > > type,size,key,default,null.
> > > It would be nice if it would look simular to the mysql variant:
> > >
> > > mysql> describe employee;
> > > +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> > >| Field     | Type     | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
> > >| +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ Id
> > >|     | int(11)  |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment | FirstName |
> > >| char(30) |      | MUL |         |                | LastName  |
> > >| char(30) |      |     |         |                | Infix     |
> > >| char(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | Address1  |
> > >| char(30) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | PostCode  |
> > >| char(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | Town      | int(11)
> > >|  | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
> > >| +-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> > >
> > > Cheers, Ron.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >|int(11)  | YES       |
> > >|NULL   
> > >|            
> > >|    ;
> > >|<BR>+-----------+----------+------+-----+---------+----------------+</FO
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