On 09/28/2010 01:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Chris Ross<cr...@markmonitor.com>  writes:
    When there is a table (or view, or sequence) of the same name in one
schema as another, and both of these schemas are in the set search_path,
only the first schema in the search path will show that name in the
output of \d[S+].  (Also \dt, \dv, etc)

That's the intended behavior, because only the first one is actually
accessible without schema-qualifying its name.  You can use a pattern
of "*.*" if you want to see objects that are hidden according to the
search path.  The default behavior is equivalent to a pattern of "*",
which only shows objects reachable with unqualified names.

Okay. However, that doesn't quite do what I want. In the case of \d, it takes a name, not a pattern, and if a name/pattern is specified as * or *.*, it shows detail about the item, not just a list. For \dt, \dv, etc, I can supply a pattern, but *.* does not give me what I want either. It gives me *all* schemas, not limited to the schemas that are in my search path.

Is there a way to ask the database "What are all of the tables/views/etc in my current search path?" without having it infer "that I can reach without schema-qualifing them" ?

That's what I've always used \d for, and while it's certainly a habit rather than anything documented explicitly to do what I think it should do, there needs to be *a* way to do this I think...

                          - Chris

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