Costa Lab at UCSC.     Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.     Institute of Marine Sciences, Long Marine Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tablename: tables_in_use

This table is an utility table and it contains a list of all the database tables which are used by Marina Mammal and Bird Web Application and which contain researcher's data. One row for each table. This table is used to query the postgeress database and display online the list of fields, field types and field descriptions for those tables. All the rows were added manually. The information about the tables listed in the tables_in_use table is stored in postgress system tables: pg_class, pg_description .

Field nameField typeField lengthField description
table_id integer None Unique record id number.
table_name character varying 50 Table name.