Re: SHOW TABLES

From: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SHOW TABLES
Date: 2010-07-15 16:09:32
Message-ID: AANLkTik4Uuz8b75Xq9TH-lrrhT6qOnii2h4bnwlluID-@mail.gmail.com
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On 15 July 2010 17:07, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thom Brown wrote:
>
>> If it's only a psql problem, why implement it as SQL?  Is it just so we're
>> not adding keywords specifically to psql?  In that case, it shouldn't
>> support QUIT.
>
> Personally, I think this is somethign that should go into the backend ...
> I'd like to be able to write perl scripts that talk to the backend without
> having to remember all the various system tables I need to query / join to
> get the same results as \d gives me in psql ... same for any interface
> language, really ...
>

Isn't that what the information_schema catalog is for?

Thom

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