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Hi,<br>
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How do i get DDL of a Table from system catalog ?<br>
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Purpose :<br>
1) i need to create an external table on the basis of another table.<br>
create table ext_table (like table_name); ------------------> this doesnot work for external tables.<br>
2) so i need to query catalog to get definition of the table.<br>
on the basis of this definition i can create external table .<br>
eg: i am looking for some thing like :<br>
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select * from pg_catalog where table_name=' srikanth_ext_parallel_crt_sms_logs_child_depth_1_d_2008_03_30_daily ' ;<br>
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3) once i get the definition of the table , i need to use that definition for creation of external table in a script which will run in cron job daily for data loading.<br>
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Can anyone guide/help me in this ?<br>
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Regards,
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Srikanth k Potluri
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+63 9177444783(philippines) <BR></HTML>