X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8578D7F24 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:16:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58152-03 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:16:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sapo.pt (relay3.ptmail.sapo.pt [212.55.154.23]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1B6ED7F1C for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:16:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 28911 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2005 12:16:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sapo.pt) (10.134.35.155) by relay3 with SMTP; 25 Aug 2005 12:16:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 19038 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2005 12:16:48 -0000 X-AntiVirus: PTMail-AV 0.3-0.86.2 Received: from unknown (HELO hmv02) ([82.155.154.142]) (envelope-sender ) by mta5 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Aug 2005 12:16:48 -0000 Message-ID: <005301c5a96e$df651e90$580bfea9@hmv02> From: =?Windows-1252?Q?H=E9lder_M._Vieira?= To: References: <1124968435.18119.1.camel@petitemort.i.digital-scurf.org> Subject: Re: table listing queries Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:16:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.45 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.350, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.374, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST=1.376, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05] X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200508/239 X-Sequence-Number: 22467 > 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