From: Hélder M. Vieira <hmv@mail.telepac.pt>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: table listing queries
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:16:47 +0100
Message-ID: <005301c5a96e$df651e90$580bfea9@hmv02> (raw)
References: <1124968435.18119.1.camel@petitemort.i.digital-scurf.org>
> Namely, in MySQL I can say: "SHOW TABLES FROM 'dbname'" to list tables
> in a database I'm not currently connected to.
In MySQL, table definitions are replicated outside the database files, and
might therefore be available without connecting to a specifc database.
This probably happens because of the need for some kind of unified
repository of objects pertaining to different database engines.
Helder M. Vieira
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