From bebe5acaf98873e5210c4d806c4254d0afa89dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:45:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add how to get database/user listing information.
---
doc/FAQ | 12 +++++++-----
doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html | 14 ++++++++------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/FAQ b/doc/FAQ
index 1545986e69..791cfbd9d3 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ
+++ b/doc/FAQ
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Wed Apr 17 22:48:04 EDT 2002
+ Last updated: Thu Apr 18 00:44:51 EDT 2002
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
4.5) What is the maximum size for a row, a table, and a database?
4.6) How much database disk space is required to store data from a
typical text file?
- 4.7) How do I find out what tables or indexes are defined in the
- database?
+ 4.7) How do I find out what tables, indexes, databases, and users are
+ defined?
4.8) My queries are slow or don't make use of the indexes. Why?
4.9) How do I see how the query optimizer is evaluating my query?
4.10) What is an R-tree index?
@@ -697,10 +697,12 @@
Indexes do not require as much overhead, but do contain the data that
is being indexed, so they can be large also.
- 4.7) How do I find out what tables or indexes are defined in the database?
+ 4.7) How do I find out what tables, indexes, databases, and users are
+ defined?
psql has a variety of backslash commands to show such information. Use
- \? to see them.
+ \? to see them. There are also system tables beginning with pg_ that
+ describe these too. Also, psql -l will list all databases.
Also try the file pgsql/src/tutorial/syscat.source. It illustrates
many of the SELECTs needed to get information from the database system
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
index 3e37b28b2f..8f0dbb11bb 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
alink="#0000ff">
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Wed Apr 17 22:48:04 EDT 2002
+ Last updated: Thu Apr 18 00:44:51 EDT 2002
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@
table, and a database?
4.6) How much database disk space is required
to store data from a typical text file?
- 4.7) How do I find out what tables or indexes
- are defined in the database?
+ 4.7) How do I find out what tables, indexes,
+ databases, and users are defined?
4.8) My queries are slow or don't make use of
the indexes. Why?
4.9) How do I see how the query optimizer is
@@ -893,11 +893,13 @@
Indexes do not require as much overhead, but do contain the data
that is being indexed, so they can be large also.
- 4.7) How do I find out what tables or indexes
- are defined in the database?
+ 4.7) How do I find out what tables, indexes,
+ databases, and users are defined?
psql has a variety of backslash commands to show such
- information. Use \? to see them.
+ information. Use \? to see them. There are also system tables
+ beginning with pg_ that describe these too. Also, psql
+ -l will list all databases.
Also try the file pgsql/src/tutorial/syscat.source. It
illustrates many of the SELECTs needed to get
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