Re: data dictionary?

its a good point. i use oracle almost daily for clients, and have been
thinking of writing a knock off of sqlplus to take oracle "concepts" like
"dual" or "sys.tab"


> yes- I figured that was the case and why I sent it to novice ;-)
> 
> I am referring to the the system tables (in Oracle the sql  would be something
> like select * from user_tables".
> 
> Thanks-
> Beth
> 
> "D. Duccini" wrote:
> 
> > if you can see them with \dt you can execute SQL against them ;)
> >
> > unless you're talking about system tables
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Beth Gatewood wrote:
> >
> > > Hi-
> > >
> > > New to PostGreSQL...previously used Oracle.
> > >
> > > Could someone please tell me where the Data Dictionary is located?
> > > Specifically, I want to get a list of tables.  I know about the \dt
> > > command but I would like to see where this is actually stored (so that I
> > >
> > > can execute SQL against it).
> > >
> > > TIA-
> > >
> > > Beth
> > >
> >
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