Re: SHOW TABLES ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Thomas
Subject Re: SHOW TABLES ?
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Msg-id 20040207094022.A32468@bacon
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In response to SHOW TABLES ?  (pgmoscatt <pgmoscatt@optushome.com.au>)
List pgsql-general
On 07/02/2004 07:41 pgmoscatt wrote:
> I have just moved over to PostGres after using MySQL.
>
> In MySQL I could issue the command SHOW TABLES within a database to show
> what tables are within.
>
> I tried to do this with PostGres and I get the following error message:
>
> Option 'tables' is not recognized
>
> How do I display the tables within a database ?

Assuming you mean how do list tables in the psql client

\d

Try man psql for more details.

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