On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Adarsh Sharma
<adarsh.sharma@orkash.com> wrote:
> Below is the output of the \d command
>
> SELECT n.nspname as "Schema",
> c.relname as "Name",
> CASE c.relkind WHEN 'r' THEN 'table' WHEN 'v' THEN 'view' WHEN 'i' THEN
> 'index' WHEN 'S' THEN 'sequence' WHEN 's' THEN 'special' END as "Type",
> pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(c.relowner) as "Owner"
> FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
> LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
> WHERE c.relkind IN ('r','v','S','')
> AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'
> AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
> AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
> AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)
> ORDER BY 1,2;
>
> I want to specify the database name & fetch tables from that but I think
> this query filters from schema 'public';
You HAVE to connect to the db you want to query about tables. They
are isolated from each other.