Re: Retail DDL

Some years ago I gave a talk about $subject, but somehow it dropped off
my radar. Now I'm looking at it again. The idea is to have a function
(or set of functions) that would allow the user to get the DDL for any
database object. Obviously we already have some functions for things
like views and triggers, but most notably we don't have one for tables,
something users have long complained about. I have been trying to think
of a reasonable interface for a single function, where we would pass in,
say, a catalog oid plus an object oid, and maybe some optional extra
arguments. That seems a bit fragile, though. The alternative is that we
have a separate function for each object type, e.g.
pg_get_{objecttype}_ddl. I'm kinda leaning that way, but I'd like some
sort of consensus before any work gets done.