Zak McGregor writes:
> for eg:
> SELECT distinct a.attname FROM pg_class c, pg_attribute a, pg_type t WHERE
> c.relkind = 'r' and c.relname = 'example' and a.attnum > 0 and
> a.attrelid = c.oid and a.atttypid = t.oid ORDER BY attname
>
> but where 'example' is a table in another database, not the admin
> database. What I would like to do is a join on my admin metadata with the
> data in pg_attribute to see where I have no metadata on the field in
> question in the admin database. I hope that makes sense!
This seems like the right idea, but you can't make queries that span more
than one database.
> Is this possible? Has anyone written any sort of documentation on the
> system catalogues that I might be able to read?
In the Developer's Guide on the web site or in your local installation.
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