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From: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: List schema contents
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:33:57 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Currently, the only way to get a listing of tables in a schema via psql
is to modify your search_path, which is both non-intuitive and a PITA.
You can do \d schemaname., but that's the equivalent of

set search_path = schemaname
\d *

I'd like to propose that the behavior of \d schemaname. be changed to
match

set search_path = schemaname
\d

That avoids issues with table name conflicts that could arise if the
trailing . wasn't required. And the old behavior is still available as
\d schemaname.*

One problem I see is that this will break the ability to search for
tablename. via regex. Since that's easy to do via tablename?, I don't
think it's a big deal, unless someone has better ideas on how to
indicate we want to list something for a specific schema.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      [email protected]
Pervasive Software      http://pervasive.com    work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf       cell: 512-569-9461

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