| From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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| To: | "Andres Freund" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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| Subject: | Re: SHOW TABLES |
| Date: | 2010-07-18 19:24:25 |
| Message-ID: | 4C430E990200002500033849@gw.wicourts.gov |
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> On 07/18/2010 08:58 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> I am quite a bit surprised about all this discussion. I have a
>> very hard time we will find anything people agree about and can
>> remember well enough to be usefull for both manual and automatic
>> processing.
>>
>> I agree that the internal pg_* tables are not exactly easy to
>> query. And that the information_schema. ones arent complete
>> enough and have enough concept mismatch to be confusing. But why
>> all this?
>
> exactly my thoughts - but as I said earlier maybe this is actually
> an opportunity to look at newsysviews again?
I can't picture anything which could be done with views which would
allow me to issue one statement and see everything of interest about
a table (etc.). You know: tablespace, owner, permissions, columns,
primary key, foreign keys, check constraints, exclusion constraints,
ancestor tables, child tables, and whatever interesting features I
missed or we later add. Other products allow that to be generated
server-side, so that it is available to any and all clients. I
think we should join the crowd in this respect.
-Kevin
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