Re: Simple list tables question

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mihai Tanasescu <Mihai(dot)Tanasescu(at)skyraven(dot)pcnet(dot)ro>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Simple list tables question
Date: 2004-03-21 16:24:50
Message-ID: 25781.1079886290@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mihai Tanasescu <Mihai(dot)Tanasescu(at)skyraven(dot)pcnet(dot)ro> writes:
> If I login with user bbstatus to database bbstatus then I can do a
> "\dt" and show the tables it contains but if I login with user postgres
> which is a superuser and I try a "\dt" I get no results.

It's got nothing to do with permissions --- it has to do with your
search path. Schema bbstatus isn't in postgres' default search path
and so by default \dt doesn't show its contents.

You could see 'em with \dt *.* or \dt bbstatus.*, or you could set
search_path to include bbstatus.

regards, tom lane

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