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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Dan Haskell <danh@teleport.com>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: something like Ingres "help" command?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 22:58:10 -0700
Message-ID: <199406270558.WAA29291@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9406262004.C20596-0100000@kelly.teleport.com>

Dan Haskell <danh@teleport.com> writes:
> Is there a Postgres equivalent to the Ingres "help" command?  That is, a 
> command that will display the structure of a class. 

no, but there are some easy queries to answer this listed in the user 
manual (and in src/examples/chapter15).

> How something like the Ingres "range"?  Is there a way to establish an 
> alias for a class?

nope, just the "from" clause.
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