Re: SHOW TABLES

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SHOW TABLES
Date: 2010-07-16 16:16:32
Message-ID: 201007161616.o6GGGW515756@momjian.us
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:04:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > >> There are many tools that can access Postgres. Some are libpq programs,
> > > >> though there are command line versions in every environment: java,
> > > >> python, etc..
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, but do enough people use them to warrant putting this in the
> > > > backend?
> > >
> > > I may have lost the gist of this question, but ... how can they use them
> > > if they don't exist?
> >
> > 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.

Really? What are the other syntaxes?

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