[postgis-users] Retrieve all tables and views with geometry columns

[Obe, Regina]

I usually just manually add my views into the geometry_columns table.
Parsing could be done, but could slow things down enough to not be
useful depending on how many tables you've got.

I heard some talk of in future releases having a trigger that
automatically updates the geometry_columns table including views.

Hope that helps,
Regina
 

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Boehm, Andreas
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:42 AM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] Retrieve all tables and views with geometry
columns

Hi list,

I would like to list all the geometry columns in a database. So the user
can select the features he or she wants to see. Therefore I need to
retrieve the database's metadata. 
With "select * from geometry_columns" I'm able to get a list of all
tables with geometry columns. But I don't get information about the
_views_ with a geometry column. 
Do I have to parse the definition text in pg_views? Maybe there is an
easier way...

Thanks
Andreas

P. S. Performance analyze with 250.000.000 points is still pending. I'll
be back if I have further questions or results.
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