Re: SHOW TABLES - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: SHOW TABLES
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Msg-id AD691F75-E905-44B0-87D6-75E46E788671@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: SHOW TABLES  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:09 AM, David Fetter wrote:

>> 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.

I admit that I had to do a *lot* of work to write the schema-testing functions for pgTAP. Getting information about
functionsis especially hairy (I poached a view from newsysviews to get what I needed). 

I'd love a cleaner way to get at this information.

Best,

David

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