[fpc-pascal] GetTableNames in TSQLConnection / Postgresql

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, December 18, 2012 14:34, John wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 07:35 PM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> MySQL, Firebird, MS-access, sqlite simply do not have schema as Oracle
>> has. In PostGres or MS-SQL it's optional, to my knowledge (not an
>> expert).
>>
>
> For the record, in Postgres, it IS optional, in the sense that you can
> make all your tables in the "public" schema, in which case you don't
> need to specify the schema to access them, but if you make them in any
> other schema, you must specify it in the query.  (And yes, I have only
> just found that out, by experiment.  Coming from an Oracle background, I
> just always made schemas for my tables.)

>From this point of view, the schema prefix is "optional" with Oracle too
(using public synonyms), but that is not a generally applicable solution.

Tomas