Re: New to list, quick question.

Thanks for the info,
But I can make the psql part work, but I get an invalid command type of
msg from the \d attempt, I tried many ways to do this to no avail. So I
tried both a SELECT to pg_class (And similar catalog procedures) and
this attempt at a system call. Any other ideas??

Thanks everyone, so far.

Williams, Travis L wrote:

> @results = `print \'\\d\' |/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql travis`;
>
>
> Travis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Parker [mailto:RichParker(at)fssi-ca(dot)com]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:35 AM
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [GENERAL] New to list, quick question.
>
>
> Hello everyone.
> I have been using PostgreSQL for about 3-4 years now, it's wonderful how
>
> I can make it do things and write Perl programs to interface with it.
>
> Since I do all of the DBA behind the scenes on our company Intranet
> (Linux-Apache based), and I really prefer writing Perl programs to do my
>
> simple admin functions. I really like those \d commands (via telnet) and
>
> they tell me a lot of what I need for writing new programs etc, but I
> would really like a way to use those through my Perl programs, but
> haven't found a way to do so, has anyone done this in this manner yet?
> Also, I'd like a way to query a table to find out how much space it is
> using, like it's percentage for example, is there a way to do that?
>
> Excuse me if these questions have been asked before, I tried to search
> the LIST area and I also did not see anything related to this in the
> FAQS.
>
> Thanks for any info you can provide me.

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