Re: current_schemas() - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: current_schemas()
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Msg-id 200507300230.j6U2UDS27599@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to current_schemas()  (Halley Pacheco de Oliveira <halleypo@yahoo.com.br>)
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Why not just use pg_catalog.current_schemas()?

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Halley Pacheco de Oliveira wrote:
> I would like to know how to use current_schemas(), since SELECT current_schemas(); didn't work in
> PostgreSQL 7.4 and 8.0 psql.
>
> Halley
>
> PostgreSQL 8.0.3 Documentation
> Chapter 16. Server Run-time Environment
> 16.4. Run-time Configuration
>
> The current effective value of the search path can be examined via the SQL function
> current_schemas(). This is not quite the same as examining the value of search_path, since
> current_schemas() shows how the requests appearing in search_path were resolved.
>
> teste=# \dn
> ********* QUERY **********
> SELECT n.nspname AS "Name",
>        u.usename AS "Owner"
> FROM pg_catalog.pg_namespace n LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_user u
>        ON n.nspowner=u.usesysid
> WHERE   (n.nspname NOT LIKE 'pg\\_temp\\_%' OR
>                  n.nspname = (pg_catalog.current_schemas(true))[1])
> ORDER BY 1;
> **************************
>
>         List of schemas
>         Name        |  Owner
> --------------------+----------
>  information_schema | postgres
>  pg_catalog         | postgres
>  pg_toast           | postgres
>  public             | postgres
> (4 rows)
>
> teste=# SELECT current_schema();
>  current_schema
> ----------------
>  public
> (1 row)
>
> teste=# SELECT current_schemas();
> ERROR:  function current_schemas() does not exist
> HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You may need to add explicit type
> casts.
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