Re: Newbie-question

Victor Spång Arthursson <victor@tosti.dk>

From: Victor Spång Arthursson <victor@tosti.dk>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-10-28T14:10:44Z
Lists: pgsql-general
2003-10-28 kl. 14.33 skrev Jeff:

> 1. in psql, \pset pager will turn paging off.
> Although, if you really want a row count, a much better way to do that 
> is select count(*) from [rest of select statement]

Thanks.

I'm not new to SQL, just to postgresql, so I know about the 
Count-function ;)

Reason for the question is that I want to know the number of 
corresponding rows cause I'm in a developing phase and due to needs to 
validate the result the number of rows are important.

>
> in psql, use \timing and it will print how long each query you type in 
> took.

Perfekt!

Next question:

what is the command in postresql that matches the DESCRIBE-command in 
mysql? That's, to get the fieldnames and additional info about them…

Best regards,

Victor