Re: SHOW TABLES - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: SHOW TABLES
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Msg-id 20100716160953.GH22635@fetter.org
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In response to Re: SHOW TABLES  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Re: SHOW TABLES
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:04:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > >> There are many tools that can access Postgres. Some are libpq programs,
> > >> though there are command line versions in every environment: java,
> > >> python, etc..
> > >
> > > Yeah, but do enough people use them to warrant putting this in the
> > > backend?
> > 
> > I may have lost the gist of this question, but ... how can they use them 
> > if they don't exist?
> 
> Clarification, do enough people use non-psql command line tools to
> warrant putting this in the backend?

Yes.  Such backend stuff is in every RDBMS except ours.

Cheers,
David.
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