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From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: Stewart Allen <stewart@oec.com>
Cc: Postgres Group <postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: gleaning the database structure 
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In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 4 Aug 1994 17:57:57 -0400 (EDT) 
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Stewart Allen <stewart@oec.com> writes:
>  Is there a simple set of queries which would provide basic table/column
>  structure information within a database? I've poured over all the .ps
>  documents that came with 4.0x and the pg_<whatever> structures listed
>  there do not exactly match those used by the system.

look in the documentation for 4.2.  (unfortunately the ftp server
is down, probably until the end of next week, since we are still in 
the process of moving.)
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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