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On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:57:57PM -0600, Jonel Rienton wrote:
> Does Postgres store all the possible column datatypes somewhere in its
> system tables?  Like int8, int4, character varying, etc. I'm trying to write
> another GUI client that can list all the database objects in Postgres.

See "System Catalogs" in the documentation; here's a link to the
latest version:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/catalogs.html

You might also want to check out the Information Schema, which is
defined in the SQL standard.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/information-schema.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr


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