I'd like to check field names for various tables in our code. Is there a
system table that lists the field names of each table? ...some way to
query this information to run an error check?
Thanks
Jodi Kanter
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:37:53PM -0400, Jodi Kanter wrote:
> I'd like to check field names for various tables in our code. Is there a
> system table that lists the field names of each table? ...some way to
> query this information to run an error check?

Yes, pg_attribute. Or you could check the information_schema. See the
docs on "system catalogs" in the Internals chapter.

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:37:53PM -0400, Jodi Kanter wrote:
>
> I'd like to check field names for various tables in our code. Is there a
> system table that lists the field names of each table? ...some way to
> query this information to run an error check?

See the "System Catalogs" and "The Information Schema" chapters in
the documentation (the latter in 7.4 and later).

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