Omit columns from `/tables`

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
postgresql, typescript
Domain
api, database

Research direction

Start by tracing the TypeScript entry point that serves /tables and compare its response with /columns. The change is complete when /tables omits columns by default while /columns still provides the complete column metadata; consider whether the proposed include_columns=true alternative is required.

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Description

enhancement

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

For simple use cases of fetching list of tables, columns balloons up the response size, esp. when you have hundreds of tables. More complete columns info can instead be retrieved from /columns.

Describe the solution you'd like

Omit columns from /tables.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Use a query param include_columns=true to still include columns in /tables and make it false by default.

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