pgsql stores table names in pg_class.relname, column names in
pg_attribute.attname.
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"Emi Lu" <emilu@cs.concordia.ca> wrote
> Greetings,
>
> I am not very familiar with the system views/tables in postgreSQL. I'd
> like to get all table names that have a column let's say named "col1".
>
> For example,
> t1 (... col1 varchar(3) ... )
> t2 (... col1 varchar(3) ... )
> t3 (... ...)
>
>
> After querying the system tables/views, I can get the result something
> like :
>
> tables contain column "col1"
> ---------------------------------------------
> t1
> t2
> (2 rows)
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Emi
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