Re: Query a list of tables

Hi,

Under Schema I have;

information_schema
pg_catalog
pg_toast
pg_toast_temp_1
pg_temp_1

and then public which contains the tables with data for my database.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Campbell, Lance <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu> wrote:

> Is there a list somewhere of the system catalog tables and examples of
> querying it for administrative reasons?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 AM
> To: Campbell, Lance
> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query a list of tables
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu>
> wrote:
> > What is the SQL to do the following:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Return a list of all possible SCHEMA names within a database.
> >
> > 2) For a given SCHEMA return the list of all table names.
>
> You can either do it with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, or the system
> catalogs. To see how to do it with the system catalogs, then start
> psql with the -E switch and issue \dn and set search_path='schemaname'
> and \d
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