> On 2019–07–05, at 12:14, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In doing that work, it became clear that the command was serving two masters:
> 1. A desire to see the underlying nuts and bolts of a given database object.
> 2. A desire to essentially make the schema portion of pg_dump a server side command.
>
> To that end, I see splitting this into two commands, SHOW CREATE and SHOW DUMP.
I like the idea of having these features available via SQL as opposed to separate tools. Is it necessary to have
specificcommands for them? It seems they would potentially more useful as functions, where they'd be available for all
ofthe programmatic features of the rest of SQL.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net