| From: | "Ansley, Michael" <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec(dot)co(dot)za> |
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| To: | "'Peter Mount'" <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>, Mark Dzmura <mdz(at)phalanx(dot)phalanx(dot)net>, "'D'Arcy\" \"J(dot)M(dot)\" Cain'" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | RE: [INTERFACES] a few additional JDBC points?? |
| Date: | 1999-08-17 12:17:49 |
| Message-ID: | 1BF7C7482189D211B03F00805F8527F70ED0F3@S-NATH-EXCH2 |
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>> > 2. Is it possible to enumerate or discover the tables in a
>> database??
>>
>> Yes. Once you have a Connection, get a DatabaseMetaData object (using
>> getMetaData() ), and use the getTables() method.
>From different message:
> using something like DAO on a Win32 platform, then you get a nice object
> hierarchy which you can use to discover the data model, but otherwise you
> are reduced to SQL. And DAO can't give you a list of databases!! This is
Well, it looks like the driver takes care of that too.
MikeA
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