This may have been brought up before, but if not, I thought I would bring it
to attention, as I think this would be an easy fix.
The problem: 2 (or more) schemas that have an identical table name.
>From within psql, the \dt (and variants of it) will only show a single
version of that table.

example input:

CREATE SCHEMA schema1;
CREATE TABLE schema1.tableX (id integer);
CREATE TABLE schema1.tableY (id integer);
CREATE SCHEMA schema2;
CREATE TABLE schema2.tableX (id integer);
CREATE TABLE schema2.tableZ (id integer);
set search_path to schema1, schema2;
\dt

example output from \dt command:

schema1  |  tablex  |  table |  username
schema1  |  tabley  |  table |  username
schema2  |  tablez  |  table |  username


It seems to me, that if the schemas are even listed in the output of the \dt
command, all identically-named tables should be listed.
In fact, showing the schema name but not showing all the tables becomes
non-intuitive and somewhat misleading.

Thoughts?

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