> What would it take for you to map "show databases" to get that same
> output? Same for "show tables" and "describe tbl_name". I think these
> are standard SQL conventions which would be helpful for a lot of people.
I don't see anything about such commands in the spec ;-). These things
strike me as user-interface operations rather than something the backend
ought to provide on its own.
I am a bit surprised to note that psql doesn't seem to have any
backslash command for listing databases. Peter, what do you think?
Maybe "\db", seeing that \dd is already taken?
regards, tom lane