On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Chris Campbell <ccampbell@cascadeds.com> wrote:
> Hi, a while back I saw a thread about how to list schemas. The solution
> presented was:
>
> Select * FROM pg_namespace
>
> That’s great except the results include non schema data and no real way
> (that I can tell) to differentiate the actual schemas from the other data.
> In addition, I need to include the schema comments. So to summarize my
> particular need: I need to issue a select statement that returns “Schema
> Name” and “Comments” for the given database.
Hrm, what sort of "other data" do you see in pg_namespace? And how about this:
SELECT nspname AS "Schema Name", pg_catalog.obj_description(oid) AS "Comments"
FROM pg_namespace
WHERE nspname !~ '^pg_.*';
Josh