Is there a list somewhere of the system catalog tables and examples of querying it for administrative reasons? -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 AM To: Campbell, Lance Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query a list of tables On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is the SQL to do the following: > > > > 1) Return a list of all possible SCHEMA names within a database. > > 2) For a given SCHEMA return the list of all table names. You can either do it with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, or the system catalogs. To see how to do it with the system catalogs, then start psql with the -E switch and issue \dn and set search_path='schemaname' and \d
