Re: postgres 7.0.2

At 8/22/2000 11:54 AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > What would it take for you to map "show databases" to get that same
> > output? Same for "show tables" and "describe tbl_name". I think these
> > are standard SQL conventions which would be helpful for a lot of people.
>
>I don't see anything about such commands in the spec ;-).  These things
>strike me as user-interface operations rather than something the backend
>ought to provide on its own.

Actually, I think I understand the question.  The original person wants to 
be able to do a query and get a result containing a list of 
databases.   AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this using standard SQL-like 
statements.  Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Thomas