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

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?

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.


Andreas
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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)


This command should output the SQL you need...

echo '\d tablename' | psql -E