Re: [GENERAL] Where do COMMENTs on columns go?

According to the documentation for COMMENT, it puts a comment on
object "that can be easily retrieved with psql's \dd command."

Examples like

COMMENT on table mytable is 'foo';
COMMENT on column mytable.mycolumn is 'bar';

are given.

However, while I have been able to see the results of the first
example with

\dd mytable

I have not been able to get \dd to show the comments on the
individual columns.

Can someone tell me how to do that?

I am running postgresql-7.0.2.

Thanks,

Nan Ellman

PS Please email any replies to me directly.

> COMMENT on table mytable is 'foo';
> COMMENT on column mytable.mycolumn is 'bar';

> I have not been able to get \dd to show the comments on the
> individual columns.

\d+ <tablename>

In general, the "+" shows the comments.

You need a semi-recent version of psql to do this, something like
7.0 or better.

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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Nancy Ellman wrote:

> However, while I have been able to see the results of the first
> example with
>
> \dd mytable

Try \d+ mytable

Rod

> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Nancy Ellman wrote:
>
> > However, while I have been able to see the results of the first
> > example with
> >
> > \dd mytable
>
> Try \d+ mytable

I have added a mention of \d+ to the comment manual page. I realize \dd
and \d+ are kind of confusing bcause one shows table name comment and
the other column comments. Other backslash commands have similar +
options.

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