Re: filter tables from database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: filter tables from database
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In response to filter tables from database  (Garry Saddington <garry@schoolteachers.co.uk>)
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On 11 August 2010 15:13, Garry Saddington <garry@schoolteachers.co.uk> wrote:
> I can retrieve the table names in my database, but I would like to filter
> them based on the name of a field. Is this possible?
> Thanks
> Garry
>
> --

Hi Garry,

You can do this:

SELECT table_name
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE column_name = 'put_column_name_here'

Regards

Thom Brown
Registered Linux user: #516935

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