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From: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: List schema contents
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:00:01 -0500
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:55:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <[email protected]> writes:
> > What I'm looking for is what "\d" provides you, only limited to a
> > specific schema. "\d information_schema." (for example) doesn't provide
> > that; it provides the details for every table/view in
> > information_schema.
> 
> What you're looking for is \dt, or perhaps \dtsv or one of those forms.

\dtsv produces exactly what I'd want/expect.

> I'd be the first to agree that the behavior of \d isn't particularly
> orthogonal, but it's not the pattern language that's the problem, it's
> the command itself.

Perhaps \d without an argument should just do whatever \dtsv does?
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