From: Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Informix Schema -> PostgreSQL ?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:35:06 -0400
Message-ID: <1183484106.4492.17.camel@aleph.whitemice.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468A77B6.2070706@noaa.gov>
References: <468A77B6.2070706@noaa.gov>
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:22 -0400, Mark Fenbers wrote:
> I am an ex-Informix convert. Informix used the term "schema" to refer
> to the SQL-format definition of how a table or view was created. E.g.,
> CREATE TABLE john ( char(8) lid, ...); Some views we have are quite
> complex (and not created by me) and I want to create a similar one in
> Pg. If I could see the view in this SQL format, then I could use SQL to
> create another one using this as a template.
>
> pgadmin3 can show this definition in SQL format, but I can't use
> pgadmin3 on a certain box. How can I show information in Pg (psql) the
> way that Informix would show a schema?
>
> BTW, what does PostgreSQL call this (what Informix calls a schema)??
Just use pg_dump to dump/backup the schema. Don't include the data; it
is just like doing an Informix "dbschema -d {database}"
pg_dump -U OGo --schema-only OGo
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Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator
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