Re: schema name in SQL statement.

-----Original Message-----
From: johnf <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] schema name in SQL statement.
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:14 -0700

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 10:06:55 pm Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM, johnf <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 04:01:55 pm Adrian Klaver wrote:
> >> From: "Masis, Alexander (US SSA)" <alexander(dot)masis(at)baesystems(dot)com>
> >>
> >> > I have to explicitly specify the schema name to make SQL statement to
> >> > work.
> >> > Can I set the schema before the query, or set a default schema?
> >> > My current statement:
> >> > "SELECT col FROM schema.table"
> >> > I like to be able to use generic SQL statement like:
> >> > "SELECT col FROM table"
> >>
> >> See search_path in:
> >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-client.htm
> >>l
> >
> > I see answers like this all the time. When I review the doc's I still
> > don't know how to set the "search_path" because there is no example in
> > the doc's. Do I do something like this:
> > "select search_path=(public)" or "select search_path="public" . So how
> > is the search_path set?

set search_path = 'xmxmxmxmxmxm'