PostgreSQL

attrelid

oid

pg_class.oid

The table this column belongs to

attname

name

The column name

atttypid

oid

pg_type.oid

The data type of this column

attstattarget

int4

attstattarget controls the level of detail of statistics accumulated 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 “[.quote]#most common values”# to collect, and the target number of histogram bins to create.

attlen

int2

A copy of pg_type.typlen of this column’s type

attnum

int2

The number of the column. Ordinary columns are numbered from 1 up. System columns, such as oid, have (arbitrary) negative numbers.

attndims

int4

Number of dimensions, if the column is an array type; otherwise 0. (Presently, the number of dimensions of an array is not enforced, so any nonzero value effectively means “[.quote]#it’s an array”#.)

attcacheoff

int4

Always -1 in storage, but when loaded into a row descriptor in memory this might be updated to cache the offset of the attribute within the row

atttypmod

int4

atttypmod records type-specific data supplied at table creation time (for example, the maximum length of a varchar column). It is passed to type-specific input functions and length coercion functions. The value will generally be -1 for types that do not need atttypmod.

attbyval

bool

A copy of pg_type.typbyval of this column’s type

attstorage

char

Normally a copy of pg_type.typstorage of this column’s type. For TOAST-able data types, this can be altered after column creation to control storage policy.

attalign

char

A copy of pg_type.typalign of this column’s type

attnotnull

bool

This represents a not-null constraint.

atthasdef

bool

This column has a default value, in which case there will be a corresponding entry in the pg_attrdef catalog that actually defines the value.

atthasmissing

bool

This column has a value which is used where the column is entirely missing from the row, as happens when a column is added with a non-volatile DEFAULT value after the row is created. The actual value used is stored in the attmissingval column.

attidentity

char

If a zero byte (''), then not an identity column. Otherwise, a = generated always, d = generated by default.

attisdropped

bool

This column has been dropped and is no longer valid. A dropped column is still physically present in the table, but is ignored by the parser and so cannot be accessed via SQL.

attislocal

bool

This column is defined locally in the relation. Note that a column can be locally defined and inherited simultaneously.

attinhcount

int4

The number of direct ancestors this column has. A column with a nonzero number of ancestors cannot be dropped nor renamed.

attcollation

oid

pg_collation.oid

The defined collation of the column, or zero if the column is not of a collatable data type.

attacl

aclitem[]

Column-level access privileges, if any have been granted specifically on this column

attoptions

text[]

Attribute-level options, as “[.quote]#keyword=value”# strings

attfdwoptions

text[]

Attribute-level foreign data wrapper options, as “[.quote]#keyword=value”# strings

attmissingval

anyarray

This column has a one element array containing the value used when the column is entirely missing from the row, as happens when the column is added with a non-volatile DEFAULT value after the row is created. The value is only used when atthasmissing is true. If there is no value the column is null.