On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:17:02PM -0500, Colton A Smith wrote: > SELECT attname, typname, attnum > FROM pg_attribute INNER JOIN pg_type > ON pg_attribute.atttypid = pg_type.typelem > WHERE pg_attribute.attrelid = $oid (derived above) > AND NOT attisdropped; The join condition for pg_type should be against pg_type.oid, not pg_type.typelem. A simplified version of your two queries is: SELECT attname, atttypid::regtype, attnum FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = 'organic_matter'::regclass AND NOT attisdropped; -- Michael Fuhr
