Обсуждение: how do I get table DDL from psql (not from pg_dump)

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:21:08AM -0600, Sofer, Yuval wrote:
> I need to extract table DDL (create script) from database connection
> (using sql, by retrieving system table info or by activating some pg
> function)

pg_dump -s does this.  See the manual for more details on the switches.

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A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am  Wed, dem 27.02.2008, um  5:22:33 -0600 mailte Sofer, Yuval folgendes:
>> Hi
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>> I need to extract table DDL (create script) from database connection (using
>> sql, by retrieving system table info or by activating some pg function)
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>> Is this possible in postgres?
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> Why not using pg_dump?
>
> You can specify with -n and -t an arbitrary table and with -s you get
> only the DDL, not the data.

The "-s" option has come up as an answer to both multi-posted instances of
this question.

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Lew