I got it to work! You use the COMMENT in conjunction with \d+. Very nice. PostgreSQL Development Team, Thank you so much for having the COMMENT feature in PostgreSQL. This is great! Thanks, Lance Campbell Software Architect Web Services at Public Affairs 217-333-0382 -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Kellerer Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:10 PM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Notes or comments on columns in a table Campbell, Lance wrote on 14.02.2013 20:09: > PostgreSQL 9.2 > > When creating a table or altering a column of a table, is there a way > to add notes on a column? > comment on table foo is 'the foo table'; comment on column foo.bar is 'the bar column'; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-comment.html -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin