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Re: Newbie-question

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Victor Spång Arthursson <victor@tosti.dk>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-10-28T14:11:20Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 15:10:44 +0100,
  Victor Spång Arthursson <victor@tosti.dk> wrote:
> 
> what is the command in postresql that matches the DESCRIBE-command in 
> mysql? That's, to get the fieldnames and additional info about them…

If you are using psql, then use \d tablename . \? will tell you about
other \ commands.