Thread: tables are not listable by \dt

Hi, we recently upgraded our Postgres instllation from 7.4 to 8.2 by
doing a dump and restore. Howveer after logging into the database (as
a user that is not the superuser) and doing \dt I get the error:

No relations found

But when I do

SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY relpages DESC;

I get a list of the tables and their sizes.

I'm not even sure where to begin looking for the solution and any
pointers would be much appreciated.

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:04:21AM -0400, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> Hi, we recently upgraded our Postgres instllation from 7.4 to 8.2 by
> doing a dump and restore. Howveer after logging into the database (as
> a user that is not the superuser) and doing \dt I get the error:
>
> No relations found
>
> But when I do
>
> SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY relpages DESC;
>
> I get a list of the tables and their sizes.

Are the tables in schemas that are in your search_path?

--
Michael Fuhr

Rajarshi Guha <rguha@indiana.edu> writes:
> Hi, we recently upgraded our Postgres instllation from 7.4 to 8.2 by
> doing a dump and restore. Howveer after logging into the database (as
> a user that is not the superuser) and doing \dt I get the error:
> No relations found
> But when I do
> SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY relpages DESC;
> I get a list of the tables and their sizes.

\dt does joins to pg_roles and pg_namespace ... are those nonempty?
What have you got search_path set to?

            regards, tom lane

On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Rajarshi Guha wrote:

> Hi, we recently upgraded our Postgres instllation from 7.4 to 8.2
> by doing a dump and restore. Howveer after logging into the
> database (as a user that is not the superuser) and doing \dt I get
> the error:
>
> No relations found
>
> But when I do
>
> SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY relpages DESC;
>
> I get a list of the tables and their sizes.

Thanks to posters - it was indeed an error with the search path.

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