On Wednesday 14 April 2004 14:59, Alexander Cohen wrote: > I have created a view with this query: > > CREATE VIEW testview AS SELECT table.column AS col1, table2.column AS > coll2 FROM table, table2; > > Later on, i want to get the table and column name that a field refers > to in this view. In other words i want to get the table and column that > the column 'col1' refers to. Im looking for 'table.column'. How can i > get this information? If you're using 7.4, you can look in the information-schema: SELECT * FROM information_schema.view_column_usage WHERE view_name = 'foo_view'; This only lists columns that "show through" not calculated columns (AFAIK). -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
