Re: Get the tables names?

Thus spake Roberto Mello
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:04:40AM +0200, Magnus Landahl wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > Is it possible to get the names of all tables in the database with a sql
> > query??
>
> SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename NOT LIKE '%pg_%';
>
> The "NOT LIKE" part is to avoid getting the PostgreSQL internal tables
> in the output.

Further, to only get tables and not views, indexes, sequences, etc you
can do this.

SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables
WHERE relkind = 'r' AND tablename NOT LIKE '%pg_%';

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