Re: SHOW TABLES

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I assume SHOW TABLES would only be useful for interactive terminal
> > sesssions, not for application code (which should use
> > information_schema), so what non-psql interactive terminal programs are
> > there?
> >
> >   
> 
> I think your assumption is questionable.
> 
> Plenty of people use MySQL's "SHOW TABLES" in non-interactive settings 
> (for good or ill). That's why any suggestion that we should return 
> anything other than a resultset seems like a really terrible idea to me.

If they are writing an application, finding the query to show all tables
is the least of their problems.  I don't see how SHOW TABLE
significantly helps in that case, except make things 0.001% easier,
while creating duplicate functionality in Postgres.

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