Re: How to list and describe tables in psql???

From: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: peterlen <peteralen(at)earthlink(dot)net>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to list and describe tables in psql???
Date: 2014-01-02 03:02:26
Message-ID: CAB8KJ=gGPmXjQ4Ms0qowp7hpOqrvQN7Jfx3O3ShKKqNngFG0qA@mail.gmail.com
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2014/1/2 peterlen <peteralen(at)earthlink(dot)net>:
> Thanks for the responses. I found that I was using an older version of psql
> (one that got installed when I installed Cygwin on my windows box. I
> changed it so now the \d+
> gives me the description but \d and \dt still gives me "No relations
> found" so I must be using those incorrectly.

Possibly there's an issue with your search path?

Check if "\dn" lists schemas not listed by "SHOW search_path", if so
you can either explicitly include the schema name (\dt some_schema.*) or
adjust your search path.

See also:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/ddl-schemas.html#DDL-SCHEMAS-PATH

Regards

Ian Barwick

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