Thread: describe command for

Am 08.06.2012 14:31, schrieb Little, Douglas:

Is there a postgres sql command/function that will display an object ddl?

 

I know of the psql metacharacters, but don’t know how I’d submit from a non-psql client like sqldbx.

I see that pgadmin generates a query and then formats into a ddl statement,  but this seems like a lot of work for something that I would expect to be part of the command set.

 

Thanks

 

 

Doug Little

 

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Use pg_dump , you can define for what tables you want it to generate ddl for (check the -n and -t options) . If you pass it a -s OR --schema-only it will only dump data definitions (ddl).

Am 08.06.2012 14:50, schrieb Bartosz Dmytrak:

2012/6/8 Little, Douglas <DOUGLAS.LITTLE@orbitz.com>

Is there a postgres sql command/function that will display an object ddl?

Hi,

try some from this list:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-CATALOG-TABLE

reagrds,

Bartek 

Wow, very nice functions, didn't know them. Thanks for this great info Bartek!