From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Matching the MYSQL "Describe <table-name>" command
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:53:37 -0400
Message-ID: <10192.1114404817@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050424185324.GD27470@ns.snowman.net>
References: <200504241902.16770.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
<20050424185324.GD27470@ns.snowman.net>
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> You might want to take a look at the schema called 'information_schema'
> and see if you can find what you want there. The only problem I have
> with that, currently anyway, is that it seems to only show things the
> current user owns as opposted to what the current user has access to,
> which seems a bit silly to me.
The SQL99 spec defines some of the views as showing only what you own,
and others as showing whatever you have access to. I think we track
the spec, but feel free to point out discrepancies.
regards, tom lane
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