Re: SHOW TABLES - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: SHOW TABLES
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Msg-id 201007161616.o6GGGW515756@momjian.us
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In response to Re: SHOW TABLES  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Re: SHOW TABLES
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David Fetter wrote:
> 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.

Really?  What are the other syntaxes?

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