On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thom Brown wrote:

On 15 July 2010 17:07, Marc G. Fournier <scra...@hub.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?

I'd rather write:

SHOW TABLES;

then:

SELECT  table_name
  FROM information_schema.tables
 WHERE table_type = 'BASE TABLE'
   AND table_schema NOT IN
       ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema');

And, the latter, unless I'm doing it regularly, is alot harder to remember then the former ...


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