| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
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| To: | Geoff Caplan <geoff(at)advantae(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, mail(at)joeconway(dot)com, jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Porting from MySql - meta data issues |
| Date: | 2002-04-07 04:24:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20020407002435.67755e62.alvherre@atentus.com |
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En Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:13:40 +0100
Geoff Caplan <geoff(at)advantae(dot)com> escribió:
> Thanks folks - useful responses.
>
> In the longer run, though, it would be good if there were a more accessible
> set of functions or queries (such as the MySql SHOW queries), which made
> this kind of meta-data more accessible.
You can also use the pg_tables view, for example, and the system
catalogs for the rest (pg_database, pg_attribute).
Anyway, there's little use for SHOW queries, as you can always poke into
the system catalogs. That's something you can't do in MySQL, and is the
reason for the SHOW hack.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse.
Hardly anybody understands Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton."
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