Re: Query a list of tables

Is there a list somewhere of the system catalog tables and examples of
querying it for administrative reasons?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 AM
To: Campbell, Lance
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query a list of tables

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu>
wrote:
> What is the SQL to do the following:
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>
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> 1)      Return a list of all possible SCHEMA names within a database.
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> 2)      For a given SCHEMA return the list of all table names.

You can either do it with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, or the system
catalogs.  To see how to do it with the system catalogs, then start
psql with the -E switch and issue \dn and set search_path='schemaname'
and \d