On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 14:02, B.W.H. van Beest wrote:
> > Thanks for the answers given. I am discovering the world of SQL ...
> >
> > Given the nature of all replies (they all refer to something that is
> > PG-specific), I conclude that there is no generic way (i.e. something
> > that will hold for all sql-compliant systems).
> >
> > Is that correct, and moreover, what could be the reason that such an
> > listing function is not "standard" sql?
>
> This operation is not, to my knowledge, specified by The Standard.
>
> Thus, it's implementation-specific.
Actually, as of 7.4 we implement the spec standard information_schema,
which is the spec way of doing it. It's just fairly new, so most
databases probably don't support it yet.