Re: List schema contents

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:55:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> > What I'm looking for is what "\d" provides you, only limited to a
> > specific schema. "\d information_schema." (for example) doesn't provide
> > that; it provides the details for every table/view in
> > information_schema.
>
> What you're looking for is \dt, or perhaps \dtsv or one of those forms.

\dtsv produces exactly what I'd want/expect.

> I'd be the first to agree that the behavior of \d isn't particularly
> orthogonal, but it's not the pattern language that's the problem, it's
> the command itself.

Perhaps \d without an argument should just do whatever \dtsv does?
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