Re: \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!?
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Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B8259A99@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!?  (Joerg Hessdoerfer <Joerg.Hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net]
> Sent: 13 January 2003 22:01
> To: Greg Copeland
> Cc: Dave Page; greg@turnstep.com; PostgresSQLHackers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in
> system catalog?!?
>
>
> You have to do it in functions because some of the \ commands
> use multiple queries and logic inside the C code.

pgAdmin lists far more comprehensive data the psql and does it from
single queries 95% of the time. I'm sure someone more expert in SQL than
me could get pretty much all the other 5% sorted...

Regards, Dave.


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