On Jul 16, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> I assume SHOW TABLES would only be useful for interactive terminal >>> sesssions, not for application code (which should use >>> information_schema), so what non-psql interactive terminal programs are >>> there? >>> >>> >> >> I think your assumption is questionable. >> >> Plenty of people use MySQL's "SHOW TABLES" in non-interactive settings >> (for good or ill). That's why any suggestion that we should return >> anything other than a resultset seems like a really terrible idea to me. > > If they are writing an application, finding the query to show all tables > is the least of their problems. I don't see how SHOW TABLE > significantly helps in that case, except make things 0.001% easier, > while creating duplicate functionality in Postgres.
Many years ago I needed to write a program that needed to be able to fetch a list of tables in the DB, and then a list of attributes for each table. It took me at least a full day and I almost gave up and abandoned PostgreSQL as a result. I think calling this duplicate functionality is ridiculous. Sure, it's possible. In fact, it's very easy. For committers. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
