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Re: SHOW TABLES

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-07-15T16:07:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thom Brown wrote:

> If it's only a psql problem, why implement it as SQL?  Is it just so 
> we're not adding keywords specifically to psql?  In that case, it 
> shouldn't support QUIT.

Personally, I think this is somethign that should go into the backend ... 
I'd like to be able to write perl scripts that talk to the backend without 
having to remember all the various system tables I need to query / join to 
get the same results as \d gives me in psql ... same for any interface 
language, really ...

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