Why can't I see the column names of a table?

Question

So I made some tables programatically and I want to verify it\'s structure is what I think it is.

>Rocko=# \\c Rocko
Password for user Rocko:
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Answer 1

PostgreSQL converts unquoted identifiers (such as table and column names) to lower case by default; the standard says that identifiers are supposed to be normalized to upper case but that's not important here. So, when you say this:

\d Test

PostgreSQL considers that the same as \d test. You probably have a table that was created with a quoted name:

create table "Test" ( ...

so that its name is case sensitive and must be quoted (with double quotes) every time it is referenced. So try quoting the name:

\d "Test"