I'm creating table and view comments with "COMMENT ON", and I can find
the comment in pg_description, but I can't find a way to show the
table comments using psql.
$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 11.1 (Debian 11.1-1+b2)
I'd expect to see table comments by using \d+, and found an old post
on this list where \dd worked; neither work for me today. Am I looking
in the right place? Is this a regression?
Thank you.
postgres=# create table test_table (col1 integer);
CREATE TABLE
postgres=# comment on table test_table is 'this is a table comment';
COMMENT
postgres=# \d+ test_table
Table "public.test_table"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage | Stats
target | Description
--------+---------+-----------+----------+---------+---------+--------------+-------------
col1 | integer | | | | plain | |
postgres=# \dd test_table
Object descriptions
Schema | Name | Object | Description
--------+------+--------+-------------
(0 rows)
postgres=# select * from pg_description where objoid = (select oid
from pg_class where relname = 'test_table');
objoid | classoid | objsubid | description
--------+----------+----------+-------------------------
714760 | 1259 | 0 | this is a table comment
(1 row)
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Mark Jeffcoat
Austin, TX
