pg_shdescription
The pg_shdescription
system catalog table stores optional descriptions (comments) for shared database objects. Descriptions can be manipulated with the COMMENT
command and viewed with psql
’s \d
meta-commands. See also pg_description, which performs a similar function for descriptions involving objects within a single database. Unlike most system catalogs, pg_shdescription
is shared across all databases of a HAWQ system: there is only one copy of pg_shdescription
per system, not one per database.
Table 1. pg_catalog.pg_shdescription
column | type | references | description |
---|---|---|---|
objoid | oid | any OID column | The OID of the object this description pertains to. |
classoid | oid | pg_class.oid | The OID of the system catalog this object appears in |
description | text | Arbitrary text that serves as the description of this object. |