Re: Documenting a DB schema

Hi

You may try this.

CREATE TYPE tabela_estrutura AS
   (esquema text,
    tabela text,
    campo text,
    tipo text,
    valor text,
    autoincremento boolean);
ALTER TYPE tabela_estrutura OWNER TO postgres;



CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dados_tabela(character varying)
  RETURNS SETOF tabela_estrutura AS
$BODY$
 DECLARE
 r tabela_estrutura%ROWTYPE;
 rec RECORD;
 vTabela alias for $1;
 eSql TEXT;

 BEGIN
 eSql := 'SELECT
       CAST(rel.nspname as TEXT), CAST(rel.relname AS TEXT) ,
CAST(attrs.attname AS TEXT), CAST("Type" AS TEXT),
CAST("Default" AS TEXT), attrs.attnotnull
        FROM
               (SELECT c.oid, n.nspname, c.relname
               FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
               LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
               WHERE pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid) ) rel
        JOIN
               (SELECT a.attname, a.attrelid,
               pg_catalog.format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod) as "Type",
                      (SELECT substring(d.adsrc for 128) FROM pg_catalog.pg_attrdef d
                      WHERE d.adrelid = a.attrelid AND d.adnum = a.attnum AND a.atthasdef)
               as "Default", a.attnotnull, a.attnum
               FROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
               WHERE a.attnum > 0 AND NOT a.attisdropped ) attrs
        ON (attrs.attrelid = rel.oid )
        WHERE relname LIKE ''%' || vTabela || '%''
        ORDER BY attrs.attnum';
FOR r IN EXECUTE eSql
 LOOP
 RETURN NEXT r;
END LOOP;
 IF NOT FOUND THEN
        RAISE EXCEPTION 'Table not found', vTabela;
 END IF;
 RETURN;
 END
 $BODY$
  LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION dados_tabela(character varying) OWNER TO postgres;