Re: List of table names of a DB

Hi,

pgpool-II (pgpool.net) does exactly the same thing.

It receive SELECT query from clients, 1) parse it to find table names,
and 2) gets the oids (unique identifier in the PostgreSQL system
catalog) to recognize them. when the SELECT succeeds , it store the
query result (cache) on either shared memory or memcached according to
user's choice. For query cache invalidation, pgpool-II remembers all
oids related to the SELECTs which are source of query cache. If one of
tables get updated, pgpoool-II invalidates all of cache using the oid.

For #1, pgpool-II has a query parser copied from PostgreSQL.

pgpool-II is an open source project, so you could get some idea to
implement your own tool.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp

> Sorry, it's not about querying. I am implementing an invalidation mechanism for Postgres Query Cache as part of my
mastersproject. In order to this, I need to store details(like name) of each table the query uses. In essence, I need
tostore the table names of the cached queries. 
 
> Initially, I thought of writing a code that could extract the table names but later discovered that it is a
gargantuantask as I shall have to include around 600 production rules as was hinted in a Stackoverflow Exchange post.
Hence,I thought of getting hold of the data structure used for storing table names of a DB but I couldn't get it. 
 
> Sorry for the long post but do you know where these tables information of a DB gets stored? Or can you suggest me a
mechanism(needn'tbe fully perfect) to extract the table names? I went through the parser of postgres but it was
confusing.
> Thanks
> 
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 00:46:30 +1300
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] List of table names of a DB
> From: dgrowleyml@gmail.com
> To: in.live.in@live.in
> CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> 
> On 8 January 2015 at 22:41, Deepak S <in.live.in@live.in> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello, I am unable to find the function which retrieves the 'list of names of the tables' used in a DB. 
> 
> You may find what you want in: select table_name from information_schema.tables;
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/infoschema-tables.html
> 
>  Reason: I need a mechanism by which I can extract the names of the tables used in a query which has been parsed. My
planis to check for a match of each word in the query with a list of names of the tables used in the current DB so that
eachhit confirms a 'table name' in the query in most cases.
 
> 
> This sounds rather flaky. 
> Maybe it would be better to just EXPLAIN the query and see if you get error code 42P01postgres=# \set VERBOSITY
verbosepostgres=#explain select * from doesnotexist;ERROR:  42P01: relation "doesnotexist" does not existLINE 1:
explainselect * from doesnotexist;
 
> Unfortunately this won't help you much if you want to know all of the tables that don't exist.
> Also, just for the future, a question like this might be more suited for the pgsql-general@postgresql.org list. 
> Regards
> David Rowley