From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mark Fenbers <Mark.Fenbers@noaa.gov>
Cc: Pg SQL Discussion Group <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Dumping table definitions
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:56:47 -0400
Message-ID: <13034.1121705807@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DBDDEE.3090903@noaa.gov>
References: <42DBDDEE.3090903@noaa.gov>
"Mark Fenbers" <Mark.Fenbers@noaa.gov> writes:
> I am looking for a way to reformat the information that is generated from
> \d mytable
> into SQL syntax, such that the table can be recreated with 'psql -f
> mytable.sql' complete with index and constraint definitions. I can do
> awk and sed commands to do this if I need to, but first wanted to check
> if Pg already had tools to export the table structure (without the
> data). Does it?
pg_dump with the -s switch is a much better way ...
regards, tom lane
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