Re: SHOW TABLES

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SHOW TABLES
Date: 2010-07-16 16:13:59
Message-ID: AD691F75-E905-44B0-87D6-75E46E788671@kineticode.com
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On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:09 AM, David Fetter wrote:

>> Clarification, do enough people use non-psql command line tools to
>> warrant putting this in the backend?
>
> Yes. Such backend stuff is in every RDBMS except ours.

I admit that I had to do a *lot* of work to write the schema-testing functions for pgTAP. Getting information about functions is especially hairy (I poached a view from newsysviews to get what I needed).

I'd love a cleaner way to get at this information.

Best,

David

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