PostgreSQL: Show tables in PostgreSQL

Question

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

Answer 1

as a quick oneliner

# just list all the postgres tables sorted in the terminal
db='my_db_name'
clear;psql -d $db -t -c '\dt'|cut -c 11-|perl -ne 's/^([a-z_0-9]*)( )(.*)/$1/; print'

or if you prefer much clearer json output multi-liner :

IFS='' read -r -d '' sql_code <<"EOF_CODE"
    select array_to_json(array_agg(row_to_json(t))) from (
        SELECT table_catalog,table_schema,table_name 
        FROM information_schema.tables
        ORDER BY table_schema,table_name ) t
EOF_CODE
psql -d postgres -t -q -c "$sql_code"|jq