On 15 July 2010 17:07, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@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?
Thom