# Bringing psql's \\d to your web browser

DevFeed: [Bringing psql's \\d to your web browser](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bringing-psql-s-d-to-your-web-browser-5059.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/bringing-psqls-d-to-your-web-browser>)

Author: George MacKerron

Published: 2024-04-17T13:42:50Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [backends](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backends.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [dev-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dev-tools.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>), [web-browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-browsers.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains that psql backslash introspection commands such as \d are implemented by the local psql client rather than the Postgres server. It describes moving Neon's web-based SQL Editor to a serverless driver, enabling interactive sessions and transactions while reducing back-end memory usage, and mentions a browser developer-tools Easter egg for running queries through the connected driver client.

## Source excerpt

Different database systems provide different ways to list or describe the things they hold. For instance, to find a particular table and column in MySQL, you run SHOW TABLES followed by SHOW COLUMNS FROM my_table. In SQLite, you do .tables and then .schema my_table. And in Postgr...