pw <p.willis@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I am curious if there is a postgresql function that will >> return a list of header names based on an input query text. No, but there is support for such things at the wire protocol level --- specifically, Parse followed by Describe Statement would get you the result column names and types. How much of that is exposed by the interface library you use would depend on the library; in recent libpq versions you would use PQprepare then PQdescribePrepared. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly