How to change default/current schema in sql

Question

Preety basic question from my end that I unfortunately could not find an answer to. In my database I have 2 schemas with their respective tables. Schema X and schema Y. While I can simply pull the data easily from schema X with

SELECT * FROM employees

I cannot do the same with schema Y, forcing me to use

SELECT * FROM SchemaY.customers

My question is, how can I change the current or default schema from X to Y so I can query the tables without the SchemaY. in the table names begining.

Kindest

Marcin

ps: I utilize Postgres and play around in DataGrip.

Answer 1

Change the search path

set search_path = schemay, public;

You can also do that for your user permanently:

alter user current_user 
  set search_path = schemay, public;