Thread: shouldn't all tables have Object Descriptions?

We've stumbled upon an issue that we don't understand.  I'm assuming
that any given table should contain 'Object Descriptions.'  For example,
we have two tables as follows:

mwv=# \dd carr;
           Object descriptions
  Schema | Name | Object | Description
--------+------+--------+--------------
  public | carr | table  | Carrier File
(1 row)

mwv=# \dd avlds;
          Object descriptions
  Schema | Name | Object | Description
--------+------+--------+-------------
(0 rows)

Question is, why does the avlds table not have an entry in the Object
descriptions?

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Until later, Geoffrey

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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin

On 25/01/2008 19:54, Geoffrey wrote:

> Question is, why does the avlds table not have an entry in the Object
> descriptions?

According to \? in psql, \dd shows the comment on the table....so I
suppose if there's no comment, then \dd won't show one.

Comments are created by executing

     COMMENT ON TABLE yourtablename IS '....comment here....';

There's no comment created by default.

Ray.

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