PG_ATTRIBUTE

PG_ATTRIBUTE records information about table columns.

**Table 1** PG_ATTRIBUTE columns
Name	Type	Description
attrelid	oid	Table to which the column belongs
attname	name	Column name
atttypid	oid	Column type
attstattarget	integer	Controls the level of details of statistics collected for this column by ANALYZE. A zero value indicates that no statistics should be collected. A negative value says to use the system default statistics target. The exact meaning of positive values is data type-dependent. For scalar data types, attstattarget is both the target number of "most common values" to collect, and the target number of histogram bins to create.
attlen	smallint	Copy of pg_type.typlen of the column's type
attnum	smallint	Number of a column.
attndims	integer	Number of dimensions if the column is an array; otherwise, the value is 0.
attcacheoff	integer	This column is always -1 on disk. When it is loaded into a row descriptor in the memory, it may be updated to cache the offset of the columns in the row.
atttypmod	integer	Type-specific data supplied at table creation time (for example, the maximum length of a varchar column). This column is used as the third parameter when passing to type-specific input functions and length coercion functions. The value will generally be -1 for types that do not need ATTTYPMOD.
attbyval	boolean	Copy of pg_type.typbyval of the column's type
attstorage	"char"	Copy of pg_type.typstorage of this column's type
attalign	"char"	Copy of pg_type.typalign of the column's type
attnotnull	boolean	A not-null constraint. It is possible to change this column to enable or disable the constraint.
atthasdef	boolean	Indicates that this column has a default value, in which case there will be a corresponding entry in the pg_attrdef table that actually defines the value.
attisdropped	boolean	Whether the column has been dropped and is no longer valid. A dropped column is still physically present in the table but is ignored by the analyzer, so it cannot be accessed through SQL.
attislocal	boolean	Whether the column is defined locally in the relation. Note that a column can be locally defined and inherited simultaneously.
attcmprmode	tinyint	Compressed modes for a specific column The compressed mode includes: ATT_CMPR_NOCOMPRESS ATT_CMPR_DELTA ATT_CMPR_DICTIONARY ATT_CMPR_PREFIX ATT_CMPR_NUMSTR
attinhcount	integer	Number of direct ancestors this column has. A column with an ancestor cannot be dropped nor renamed.
attcollation	oid	Defined collation of a column
attacl	aclitem[]	Permissions for column-level access
attoptions	text[]	Property-level options
attfdwoptions	text[]	Property-level external data options
attinitdefval	bytea	attinitdefval stores the default value expression. ADD COLUMN in a row-store table must use this column.
attkvtype	tinyint	kv_type attribute of a column. Values: 0 indicates the default value, which is used for non-time series tables. 1 indicates TSTAG, a dimension attribute, which is used only for time series tables. 2 indicates TSFIELD, a metric attribute, which is used only for the time sequence table. 3 indicates TSTIME, a time attribute, which is used only for time series tables.

Example

Query the field names and field IDs of a specified table. Replace t1 and public with the actual table name and schema name, respectively.

    
         SELECT attname,attnum FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid=(SELECT pg_class.oid FROM pg_class JOIN pg_namespace ON relnamespace=pg_namespace.oid WHERE relname='t1' and nspname='public') and attnum>0; 
     attname      | attnum
------------------+--------
 product_id       |      1
 product_name     |      2
 product_quantity |      3
(3 rows)