On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:46PM +0200, Nils Zonneveld wrote:
> 
> 
> Carfield Yim wrote:
> > 
> > I am a  new user of PostgreSQL dbms, how can I check how many tables
> > avaliable at that database?
> 
> To get a list of tables through SQL:
> 
> SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename NOT LIKE 'pg_%' ORDER BY tablename;
> 
> To get the number of tables through SQL:
> 
> SELECT count(*) FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename NOT LIKE 'pg_%';

to learn more of these tricks, start 'psql' with '-E' as in

        psql -E mydatabasenamehere

then when you give any '\d' command you'll see the sql behind
the scenes that does the work.

also try '\?' for more info on using psql.

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