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To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Matching the MYSQL "Describe <table-name>" command 
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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