Re: SHOW TABLES

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thom Brown wrote:

> On 15 July 2010 17:07, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>> 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 ...
>>
>
> Isn't that what the information_schema catalog is for?

I'd rather write:

SHOW TABLES;

then:

SELECT  table_name
   FROM information_schema.tables
  WHERE table_type = 'BASE TABLE'
    AND table_schema NOT IN
        ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema');

And, the latter, unless I'm doing it regularly, is alot harder to remember 
then the former ...


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