On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 06:26, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 23:16 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > You can also select the column names from the database metadata > > > directly: > > > > > > SELECT attname > > > FROM pg_class c join pg_attribute a on c.oid = a.attrelid > > > WHERE c.relname = '<your table name>' > > > AND a.attnum >= 0; > > > > > > This approach won't get killed by the efficiency problems above. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Andrew. > > > When I want to figure out something like this I tend to use "psql -E" so > that all queries are echoed before being sent to the backend. Then I do > something like "\d <table>" and see what SQL psql generates internally. > > Also, dig here for detailed information on the postgresql data > dictionary tables: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/catalogs.html > > the most useful ones are pg_class and pg_attribute usually (for obvious > reasons :-). With 7.4 I also find myself looking at the > pg_stat_activity view from time to time as well. > > Cheers, > Andrew. Thanks to everyone that responded to my question. I have my application working as I wanted. I really appreciate all the help that was provided. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
