Re: Bug - DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() was [Novice] Can't get list of databases with \list

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Frank <c(dot)frank(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-jdbc <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug - DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() was [Novice] Can't get list of databases with \list
Date: 2009-11-03 18:16:15
Message-ID: alpine.BSO.2.00.0911031313040.29390@leary.csoft.net
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Richard Broersma wrote:

> I verified that the DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs() only returns a
> ResultSet with the currently connect database rather than all of the
> databases in the PostgreSQL cluster.
>

The previous discussion to refer to is probably:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2004-01/msg00164.php

Crippling getCatalogs was the best proposed solution to the fact that no
other catalog based functionality existed (or could).

Kris Jurka

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