Re: data dictionary?

So does this mean that there is no such thing as System Tables?

I would really like to write some code that would be able to query any database,
grab out the tables and then do a row count on each table. Obviously I could do
this by hand, singly executing \dt but this will be taking a long time.

Any thought on this?

Thanks-
Beth
"D. Duccini" wrote:

> its a good point. i use oracle almost daily for clients, and have been
> thinking of writing a knock off of sqlplus to take oracle "concepts" like
> "dual" or "sys.tab"
>
> > yes- I figured that was the case and why I sent it to novice ;-)
> >
> > I am referring to the the system tables (in Oracle the sql would be something
> > like select * from user_tables".
> >
> > Thanks-
> > Beth
> >
> > "D. Duccini" wrote:
> >
> > > if you can see them with \dt you can execute SQL against them ;)
> > >
> > > unless you're talking about system tables
> > >
> > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Beth Gatewood wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi-
> > > >
> > > > New to PostGreSQL...previously used Oracle.
> > > >
> > > > Could someone please tell me where the Data Dictionary is located?
> > > > Specifically, I want to get a list of tables. I know about the \dt
> > > > command but I would like to see where this is actually stored (so that I
> > > >
> > > > can execute SQL against it).
> > > >
> > > > TIA-
> > > >
> > > > Beth
> > > >
> > >
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