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From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query a list of tables
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:02:03 -0600
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.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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