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I found that by doing the following query you can get a list of all schemas or namespaces: select distinct schemaname from pg_tables where schemaname not in ('information_schema', 'pg_catalog'); In order to select all of the tables within a schema or namespace: select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname='name_of_schema'; Thanks for the responses. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibson Chimhamhiwa Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:22 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query a list of tables Hi, Under Schema I have; information_schema pg_catalog pg_toast pg_toast_temp_1 pg_temp_1 and then public which contains the tables with data for my database. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Campbell, Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a list somewhere of the system catalog tables and examples of querying it for administrative reasons? -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 AM To: Campbell, Lance Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query a list of tables On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Campbell, Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the SQL to do the following: > > > > 1) Return a list of all possible SCHEMA names within a database. > > 2) For a given SCHEMA return the list of all table names. You can either do it with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, or the system catalogs. To see how to do it with the system catalogs, then start psql with the -E switch and issue \dn and set search_path='schemaname' and \d -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Gibson Chimhamhiwa CSIR - Meraka Institute P O Box 395, Pretoria 0001 South Africa www.csir.co.za / www.meraka.org.za Office: +27 12 841 2758 Mobile: +27 78 447 2879 Fax: +27 12 841 4720 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>