On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Dado Feigenblatt wrote:
> Magnus Landahl wrote:
>
> >Hi everybody!
> >
> >Is it possible to get the names of all tables in the database with a sql
> >query??
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Magnus
> >
> >
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> Not sure if this is the best way, but it works.
> SELECT relname , relowner from pg_class where relkind = 'r';
>
> The only thing is that this includes system tables.
> So if you want to strip those you need to
> SELECT relname , relowner FROM pg_class WHERE relkind = 'r' and
> relowner != 26;
>
> Is user postgres always 26? Maybe you have to find that out first.
system tables all ~ '^pg', which is probably a better check than
user=postgresql.
hth,
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Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington
