From: Alex Turner <aturner@maaco.com>
To: Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>
Cc: Postgres mailing list <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Retreiving Table info
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:16:08 -0400
Message-ID: <374AA298.D478E5F9@maaco.com> (raw)
References: <l03130301b3704fbb3160@[147.233.159.109]>
Brilliant! worked first time. pg_class is the one!
I know that you can get the types from a database from the metadata, but I'm
wondering if there is also a way to issue to an SQL query to postgres that will
yield the same result.
Alex T
Herouth Maoz wrote:
> At 14:52 +0300 on 25/05/1999, Alex Turner wrote:
>
> >
> > however.. is it possible to open a connection to the database and
> > determine what tables are in the database already?
>
> Of course. It's a query, just like any other query, but you select the data
> from the system catalogs rather than your own tables. Take a look in the
> documentation - the manpage for "catalogs".
>
> The table you should query is probably pg_class.
>
> Herouth
>
> --
> Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
> Open University of Israel - Telem project
> http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
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