Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id WAA22317 for postgres-redist; Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:58:16 -0700 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199406270558.WAA22317@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.149.14]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with ESMTP id WAA22307 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:58:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.1B) with SMTP id WAA29291; Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:58:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199406270558.WAA29291@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: Dan Haskell Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: something like Ingres "help" command? Reply-To: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 26 Jun 1994 21:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 22:58:10 -0700 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 22:58:16 -0700 Resent-XMts: smtp Dan Haskell 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. -- Paul M. Aoki | CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB | aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 | ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ==============================================================================