[R] Re trieving comments from PostgreSQL tables with RODBC and psqlodbc

[Jim Cser]

I don't know whether this is an RODBC issue, a psqlodbc issue or a PostgreSQL
issue; I've searched the documentation and forums for each, with no success.

I want to list all the tables in a PostgreSQL schema, and return the table
comments as well as the table names.  As an example, one table is defined as
follows:

CREATE TABLE scen990.ezone_locationprice_year1
(
  ezone integer NOT NULL,
  lprice_man_year1 real,
  lprice_war_year1 real,
  lprice_ret_year1 real,
  lprice_gen_year1 real,
  lprice_med_year1 real,
  lprice_gov_year1 real,
  CONSTRAINT ezone_locationprice_year1_pkey PRIMARY KEY (ezone)
) 
WITHOUT OIDS;
ALTER TABLE scen990.ezone_locationprice_year1 OWNER TO mscope;
COMMENT ON TABLE scen990.ezone_locationprice_year1 IS 'calculated';

The RODBC function sqlTables() returns all the tables, but the records look
like this:

TABLE_QUALIFIER     TABLE_OWNER     TABLE_NAME     TABLE_TYPE     REMARKS
mscope     scen990     ezone_locationprice_year1     TABLE     ""

All the "REMARKS" values are empty strings.  Can I get it to return the
COMMENT ON values instead?  (the table_owner and tablet_qualifier are
switched but that doesn't worry me)   I'm using  R 2.8.1, RODBC 1.2-4,
psqlodbc 8.0.2, and PostgreSQL 8.1.5 .  

Regards,
Jim Cser
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