Re: See postgre tables from PHP code

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 05:04 +0100, Félix Sánchez Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi everybody:
> 
> I'm relatively new to PHP programming and I was recommended to use 
> PostgreSQL as the site's database. However I haven't able to see my DB's 
> tables from PHP. Here is my (very simple, I think) code:
> 
> $pg = pg_connect("host=localhost port =5432 dbaname = ATM user=postgres 
> password = mypassword");
> pg_query($pg,"select nick,contrasenna,nombre,apellidos from usuarios");
> 
> Beside, I opened my PostgreSQL interface, called pgAdmin and run the same 
> query inside the ATM database and the error was the same: "relation 
> 'usuarios' was not found". It's like something else was needed to access the 
> DB tables. 

Is it possible that the tables are in a different schema?

For example, on a Mediawiki installation I have:

davical_wiki=# \d
No relations found.
davical_wiki=# set search_path TO 'mediawiki';
SET
davical_wiki=# \d
                        List of relations
  Schema   |         Name          |   Type   |      Owner       
-----------+-----------------------+----------+------------------
 mediawiki | archive               | table    | davical_wikiuser
 mediawiki | category              | table    | davical_wikiuser
 mediawiki | category_id_seq       | sequence | davical_wikiuser
...

You can refer to tables in a different schema by prefixing the table
name with the schema name and '.', e.g. mediawiki.archive

davical_wiki=# \d mediawiki.archive
                   Table "mediawiki.archive"
    Column     |           Type           |     Modifiers      
---------------+--------------------------+--------------------
 ar_namespace  | smallint                 | not null
 ar_title      | text                     | not null
...

The same prefixing syntax should work.  The same 'set search_path ...'
syntax should also work if you do that after the pg_connect call.

If you're in psql, too, tab-completion should work, so if you go
\d<space><tab><tab> you will see a list of schema, like:

davical_wiki=# \d 
information_schema.  pg_catalog.          pg_toast.           public.              
mediawiki.           pg_temp_1.           pg_toast_temp_1.     

If I did that after setting the search path the autocomplete finds all
the tables in the mediawiki schema also.

Cheers,
					Andrew.

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