Re: [GENERAL] simple questions

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Niral Trivedi wrote:

> I have very simple two questions..
>
> How can we 'describe a table' and 'view all available tables' in postgres
> DB??
>
> I am looking for something similar to 'desc <TABLE>' and 'show tables' in
> MySQL or
> 'desc <TABLE>' and 'select * from tab' in Oracle..

If you are using the psql app, \d will show you all relations (tables,
sequences, etc).  \dt will show all tables, \dt <table> will show the
details of a particualr table.  See the online help \? for more info.

-- Brett
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