Re: Getting Table Names in a Particular Database

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Adarsh Sharma
> <adarsh(dot)sharma(at)orkash(dot)com> wrote:
>> Below is the output of the \d command
>>
>> SELECT n.nspname as "Schema",
>>   c.relname as "Name",
>>   CASE c.relkind WHEN 'r' THEN 'table' WHEN 'v' THEN 'view' WHEN 'i' THEN
>> 'index' WHEN 'S' THEN 'sequence' WHEN 's' THEN 'special' END as "Type",
>>   pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(c.relowner) as "Owner"
>> FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
>>      LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
>> WHERE c.relkind IN ('r','v','S','')
>>       AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'
>>       AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
>>       AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
>>   AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)
>> ORDER BY 1,2;
>>
>> I want to specify the database name & fetch tables from that but I think
>> this query filters from schema 'public';
>
> You HAVE to connect to the db you want to query about tables.  They
> are isolated from each other.

Also take out the AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid) bit if you
want to view all tables in all schemas, not just the ones in your
search path.