title: Equivalent of "describe table" in PgAdmin3
body: <p>Question asked and answered:</p>
  
  <p>As many of us know, PostgreSQL does not support <code>describe table</code> or <code>describe view</code>.  As one might find from google, PostgreSQL uses <code>\d+</code> instead.  </p>
  
  <p>However, if one accesses PostgreSQL using PgAdmin (I am actually using PgAdmin3) then <code>\d+</code> does not work.  What does one do instead?</p>
  
  <p>I thought about this question when playing with the query tool in PgAdmin3.  I had a "well, duh!" moment when I thought to look at the home window of PgAdmin3, and at the tree on the left side of that window.  Under </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;servername&gt;
  -&gt; &lt;databasename&gt;
  -&gt; Schemas
  -&gt; &lt;schemaname&gt;
  -&gt; Tables
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>was a list of my tables,
  and clicking on the table name showed me text
  very much like what <code>\d+</code> would have showed me.</p>
  
  <p>So for the benefit of anyone else who did not discover this right away, here is an answer.</p>