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From: Gibson Chimhamhiwa <gchimhamhiwa@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query a list of tables
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:21:41 +0200
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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@illinois.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.marlowe@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 AM
> To: Campbell, Lance
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query a list of tables
>
> 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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