Re: SHOW TABLES

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Kevin Grittner wrote:

> Any solution which only works within psql isn't a solution for a
> large part of the problem space people are trying to address.  One
> important goal is that if someone spends a day to whip up a GUI
> query tool (as I did when I first started working in Java), it's
> easy to get displays like we get from the psql backslash commands
> (as it was in Sybase, which is what we were using at the time,
> through sp_help and related stored procedures).

I don't agree that this is an important goal. Certainly someone 
writing a GUI (or a new driver) should be expected to be familiar 
with the system catalogs. Moreover, a GUI relies on an underlying 
driver, and every driver should already be providing things like 
a list of tables natively.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/
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