PostgreSQL: Show tables in PostgreSQL

Question

What\'s the equivalent to show tables (from MySQL) in PostgreSQL?

Answer 1

Note that \dt alone will list tables in the public schema of the database you're using. I like to keep my tables in separate schemas, so the accepted answer didn't work for me.

To list all tables within a specific schema, I needed to:

1) Connect to the desired database:

psql mydb

2) Specify the schema name I want to see tables for after the \dt command, like this:

\dt myschema.*

This shows me the results I'm interested in:

               List of relations
 Schema   |       Name      | Type  |  Owner   
----------+-----------------+-------+----------
 myschema | users           | table | postgres
 myschema | activity        | table | postgres
 myschema | roles           | table | postgres