Re: [HACKERS] Clarification needed

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Indira Muthuswamy <indumuthu(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Clarification needed
Date: 2006-10-11 07:20:35
Message-ID: 20061011072035.GE9860@fetter.org
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:26:19PM +0530, Indira Muthuswamy wrote:
> Hai,
>
> Can anyone of you help me in finding the datatype of a particular
> column in a table in Postgres?

Indira,

You'll want to look at the columns view in the information_schema.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/information-schema.html

Cheers,
Dave.
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