On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thom Brown wrote:
> 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?
I'd rather write:
SHOW TABLES;
then:
SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_type = 'BASE TABLE' AND table_schema NOT IN
('pg_catalog','information_schema');
And, the latter, unless I'm doing it regularly, is alot harder to remember
then the former ...
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