On Tuesday 19 August 2008 10:06:55 pm Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM, johnf <jfabiani@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 04:01:55 pm Adrian Klaver wrote: > >> From: "Masis, Alexander (US SSA)" <alexander.masis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> > I have to explicitly specify the schema name to make SQL statement to > >> > work. > >> > Can I set the schema before the query, or set a default schema? > >> > My current statement: > >> > "SELECT col FROM schema.table" > >> > I like to be able to use generic SQL statement like: > >> > "SELECT col FROM table" > >> > >> See search_path in: > >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-client.htm > >>l > > > > I see answers like this all the time. When I review the doc's I still > > don't know how to set the "search_path" because there is no example in > > the doc's. Do I do something like this: > > "select search_path=(public)" or "select search_path="public" . So how > > is the search_path set? > > But there is a link on that page under search_path that points here: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/ddl-schemas.html > > which has much better info on search_path in it. Thanks - I did not note the link. -- John Fabiani
