`sqlite-utils tables data.db table1 table2`

[simonw]

The sqlite-utils tables command currently lists all tables.

If you have a huge table in there then running it with --counts can get expensive, because of the huge table.

Would be useful if it could accept an optional list of tables that it should execute against, as an alternative to the default of all of them.

This should be a backwards compatible change. Current design is: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli-reference.html#tables

Usage: sqlite-utils tables [OPTIONS] PATH

  List the tables in the database

  Example:

      sqlite-utils tables trees.db

[simonw]

What should happen if you run this:

sqlite-utils tables data.db bad_table

Where bad_table is a table that does not exist?

I think it should error rather than failing silently. That way you can use the error code to confirm that a list of expected tables exist.