| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Craig <postgresql(at)bryden(dot)co(dot)za>, PG-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Querying for related tables |
| Date: | 2005-11-03 20:23:57 |
| Message-ID: | 20051103202357.GC55520@pervasive.com |
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:10:44PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Craig wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >How can I query for all the tables that are referenced by a particular
> >table (i.e my table has 3 foreign keys. I need a query that will return
> >the table names of the referenced tables)?
>
> See the chapters on the "Information Schema" (which is an SQL standard)
> and the "system catalogs" (which are PostgreSQL specific).
See also http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews
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