Re: SHOW TABLES

On 15 July 2010 17:16, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
> 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 ...

Yes, I see what you mean now.  That would simplify things greatly.

Thom