Re: how to search for relation by name?

Thanks! I just created new database using old database as template,
and everything got copied over without errors. is that recommended
over pg_dump though when just recreating database for different
encoding?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/manage-ag-templatedbs.html

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:14 PM, DM <dm.aeqa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the sql
> SELECT c.oid,
>   n.nspname,
>   c.relname
> FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
>      LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
> WHERE c.relname LIKE ('%dt%')
>   AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)
> replace dt with your sequence name
> pg_catalog has the information.
> Thanks
> Deepak
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, zach cruise <zachc1980@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> when i try to copy database (into another database), i get "relation
>> does not exist" errors for 'super objects' like sequences. (that is
>> fine since i am using pg_dump, not pg_dumpall) but there is one
>> relation i can't find to recreate in the new database.
>>
>> how can i search database for relation by name (some catalog table)?
>>
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