[DB-SIG] postgres access to db structure

[Federico Di Gregorio]

On 26 May 2001 23:04:15 +1000, Dave Cole wrote:
> >>>>> "fve" == Frederic Vander Elst <fve@phgroup.com> writes:
> 
> fve> I believe there is a platform-independent way of doing this :
> fve> select * from mytable where 1=0
> 
> fve> from my experience, this works via mxODBC against db2, oracle,
> fve> postgres, and vfox tables types of dbs.
> 
> It also works for my Sybase module.

works in psycopg too, but sometimes you don't know 'mytable', e.g., when
you're writing a db management tool that need the full list of tables,
etc.

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