From: Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42@gmail.com>
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 19:08:56 +0200
Message-ID: <758d5e7f0507181008403969ec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DBDDEE.3090903@noaa.gov>
References: <42DBDDEE.3090903@noaa.gov>
On 7/18/05, Mark Fenbers <Mark.Fenbers@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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 is your friend! Use option -s (--schema-only).
It will dump the information you want. :-)
Regards,
Dawid
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