On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:16 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 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 ...
>
Thank you Marc. That is an excellent description of the problem that is
being ignored. We are no longer the academia database. We need to think
of real users here.
JD
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