On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:30:31PM -0800, mjbjr@beaudesign.com wrote:
> I'm new to sql and to postgres. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to
> determine answers to the following questions, but have been unsuccessful.
>
> Say you work at a small company, and the person who was db admin dies
> suddenly. How do you:
Question: Did you read the little help message that pops up when you start
psql?
> 1) determine what db's postgres knows about?
psql -l
> 2) how do you determine what tables exist, if any, in a given db?
\d
> 3) how do you determine the structure/specification (not the data) of a table?
\d [tablename]
You can use pg_dump -s to extract all the grotty details if oyu like.
HTH,
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