SHOW CREATE TABLE in PostgreSQL
MySQL has a command called SHOW CREATE TABLE, which dumps the actual SQL that can be used to create a table. PostgreSQL doesn't have the same command, but it is possible to do. The program pg_dump can dump the database, and also creates the required SQL. If you have to do this from within psql, you can do something like:
\! pg_dump -s -t mytable
The output of this is pretty verbose, so since we're already running a subshell, why not use grep?
\! pg_dump -s -t mytable | grep -v ^-- | grep .
Now you see the required SQL, including the implicitly created objects.
If you just wanted to see the structure of the table, use
\d mytableinstead.
posted at: 16:07 | path: /2011/04 | permanent link to this entry