Table definition for programmers .... ?!?!

[Guest_imported]

Hi ...

i am trying to get the table definition of a table for programming ... i know that its \d <tablename> in the psql-tool ... but that doesn't help much for working that into source code, does it ?
I also know that pg_attributes holds all data i need to know about the table but i have to give the oid of the table to identify it - where from do i get this oid just by giving the name of the table ?

 

[Guest_imported]

ok ... for all who want to know :

additionally to * one can ask for oid :
select oid, * from ... returns more than select * from ...
with pg_class and pg_attributes the problem is solved