On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:20:45 +0200 Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SHOW TABLES does not make sense. How are you going to join the > output of SHOW TABLES against the output of SHOW COLUMNS and SHOW > INDEXES? > > SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES makes sense. > > > And as for easy remembering: I prefer to remember just one standard, > instead of the idiosyncracies of each product. Yes, a queryable (sp?) set of dictionary tables/views would be nice for doing this. The MySQL set of "SHOW" commands is pretty painful for any serious development. Does PostgreSQL have a set of information schema tables to query against like Oracle does (e.g. SELECT table_name FROM user_tables)? I noticed this from a quick google search: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/orapgsqlviews/projdisplay.php Is something similar planned for MySQL in the future? Doesn't appear to be from: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Roadmap.html Josh -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
