Re: [INTERFACES] Retreiving Table info

From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: Alex Turner <aturner(at)maaco(dot)com>, Postgres mailing list <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Retreiving Table info
Date: 1999-05-25 13:08:31
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At 14:52 +0300 on 25/05/1999, Alex Turner wrote:

>
> however.. is it possible to open a connection to the database and
> determine what tables are in the database already?

Of course. It's a query, just like any other query, but you select the data
from the system catalogs rather than your own tables. Take a look in the
documentation - the manpage for "catalogs".

The table you should query is probably pg_class.

Herouth

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