RE: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL counterpart to DBMS_METADATA?‏

Any suggestions for doing this from PL/pgSQL?

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From: depesz@depesz.com [mailto:depesz@depesz.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:25 AM
To: Tefft, Michael J
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL counterpart to DBMS_METADATA?‏

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:53:42AM -0600, Tefft, Michael J wrote:
> I would like to extract the DDL to create a given object (tables,
> primarily) from the catalog. Is there an interface, query, etc. that 
> will do this? I'd rather not craft the DDL myself.

use pg_dump -t table_name -s

Best regards,

depesz

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