Howdy!
It was suggested to me that this proposed feature is interesting
enough to be floated around for discussion.
Don't get your hopes up, because the request is extremely simple:
It could be useful to have a command that returns the table definition
(like pg_dump -st) from within the query interface. This could be
particularly useful if one doesn't have access to or prefers not to
manipulate results coming from a shell. If I have an API from which to
query the database, it seems silly to have to spawn a shell and run a
command to query the very same database.
(I'm not exactly familiar with how pg_dump manipulates or extracts
that data, so this could be a very, very stupid question. If so,
please forgive me.)
Regards,
Wilfried Schobeiri