Re: Cursor need it?

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|I am a new postgres user
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|I want to get a list of tables from pg_tables where tables are like 
|‘%wo%’ (for example).. and then query that list ….
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|Select count(*) from tableVARIABLENAMEFROMFIRSTQUERY
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|In SQL SERVER I can do that using cursor but in postgresql I don’t 
|understand how to use cursors

Sorry, but this is a SQL-Server. 
You are looking for cross table joins. Join the pg_class table (where you
get the table name) with another table which you want to query additional
data. Then select your columns off both tables.

select p.name, m.foo from pg_class p JOIN myinfo m ON p.name=m.info 
this is equal to
select p.name, m.foo from pg_class p, myinfo m  where p.name=m.info 

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|Here is what I am trying to do
|for each table on the list
|Select tablename, count(*) tables from ( list of tables)
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|tablename tables
|table1 25
|table2 35
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|Any Idea would be appreciated
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|Thanks
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|Lucas
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