Re: How to obtain the list of data table name only

From: Neil Dugan <postgres(at)butterflystitches(dot)com(dot)au>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to obtain the list of data table name only
Date: 2005-07-15 12:16:08
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On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:24 -0700, sunny076(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if anyone can tell me how I can obtain only the list of
> data table in postgresql without function and other ancillary tables. I
> hope that I can add a tag that can filter only data table.
>
> I am using the following SQL Statement:
>
> "SELECT TABLE_NAME, TABLE_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES"
>
> I would appreciate if anyone can enligten me on how this can be
> achieve.
>
> Sunny

I am not sure what you mean but one way to find out what tables there
are is to use the 'pg_tables' view.

select tablename from pg_tables;

Regards Neil.

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