Re: existence of column name

Eric Smith wrote:
> All,
>
> From the C API, how do I check for the existence of a column name in a
> given table?

    select data_type from information_schema.columns where
table_schema='public' and table_name='given_table' and
column_name='some_column';

that will return the data_type if the column exists, or return zero rows
if it doesn't.