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>44.17. <TT
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>   The catalog <TT
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>pg_description</TT
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   (comments) for each database object.  Descriptions can be manipulated
   with the <A
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   <SPAN
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   Descriptions of many built-in system objects are provided in the initial
   contents of <TT
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>   See also <A
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   which performs a similar function for descriptions involving objects that
   are shared across a database cluster.
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>The OID of the system catalog this object appears in</TD
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>       For a comment on a table column, this is the column number (the
       <TT
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>objoid</TT
> and <TT
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>classoid</TT
> refer to
       the table itself).  For all other object types, this column is
       zero
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