Re: Retrieving a list of tables

select * from pg_tables where name not like 'pg_%';

\dS gives you a list of system tables.

with psql -E

\dt gives you

SELECT c.relname as "Name", 'table'::text as "Type", u.usename as "Owner"
FROM pg_class c, pg_user u
WHERE c.relowner = u.usesysid AND c.relkind = 'r'
AND not exists (select 1 from pg_views where viewname = c.relname)
AND c.relname !~ '^pg_'
UNION
SELECT c.relname as "Name", 'table'::text as "Type", NULL as "Owner"
FROM pg_class c
WHERE c.relkind = 'r'
AND not exists (select 1 from pg_views where viewname = c.relname)
AND not exists (select 1 from pg_user where usesysid = c.relowner)
AND c.relname !~ '^pg_'

ORDER BY "Name"

-----Original Message-----
From: David C. Brown [mailto:dbrown(at)centennialwines(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:09 PM
To: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [PHP] Retrieving a list of tables

Heyas,

I need to be able to get a list of the tables from a postgresql from
php. I'm
porting a php-mysql website over to postgresql. I have a form that
populates
a <SELECT> statment with the tables in the db.

In Mysql I just used the sql query "SHOW TABLES;" postgresql doesn't
support that sql statment, and pg-php doesn't like me sending a "\d" as
a
query.

Anyone have any help, or ideas how I may be able to work around this?
or is there a query for pg-sql that I don't know about?

Any and all help would be great... Thanx

Dave

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