What about querying the information_schema? Chris
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Treat > Sent: Tuesday, 14 January 2003 6:01 AM > To: Greg Copeland > Cc: Dave Page; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in system > catalog?!? > > > You have to do it in functions because some of the \ commands use > multiple queries and logic inside the C code. > > Robert Treat > > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:42, Greg Copeland wrote: > > Views or C-functions, I think the idea is excellent. It's the concept > > that I really like. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:00, Dave Page wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Greg Copeland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: 13 January 2003 20:56 > > > > To: Robert Treat > > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List > > > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in > > > > system catalog?!? > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh! > > > > > > > > That's an excellent idea. Seemingly addresses the issue and > > > > has value-add. I'm not aware of any gotchas here. Is there > > > > something that is being overlooked? > > > > > > Why use functions instead of views? Most UIs will want to format the > > > output as they see fit so a recordset would be the appropriate output. > > > Yes, a function could do this, but surely views would be simpler to > > > implement and maintain. > > > > > > Regards, Dave. > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > > > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > -- > > Greg Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Copeland Computer Consulting > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
