On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Beth Gatewood wrote:
> Hi-
>
> New to PostGreSQL...previously used Oracle.
>
> Could someone please tell me where the Data Dictionary is located?
> Specifically, I want to get a list of tables. I know about the \dt
> command but I would like to see where this is actually stored (so that I
>
> can execute SQL against it).
Hi Beth,
SELECT * FROM pg_class;
is a good place to start when querying the system catalogue.
BTW, default tables (sys catalogue) are stored in:
/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
Cheers,
Tom
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