On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:37:59PM +0200, Serguei Pronkine wrote: > How can I now retrieve column number from column name? Query pg_attribute. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/catalog-pg-attribute.html Since psql can display object comments you could study the SQL that it executes: \set ECHO_HIDDEN \d+ mytab -- Michael Fuhr