Re: No way to list DDL for a new type

On 6/11/08, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Rajesh Chopra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I created a new type as follows:
> > CREATE TYPE compfoo AS (f1 int, f2 text);
> >
> > Now I need the DDL which postgres used to create this type.
> >
>
> Huh, what do you mean? That CREATE TYPE statement is DDL.

I think what the OP was asking was how to reverse engineer the DDL out
of the database for an already created type (but you're right, this is
not a bug). in psql, the create type source sql is not displayed like
it is for views for example.

There are a couple of ways to do this:
*) pg_dump -s and examine the output
*) fire up pgadmin, browse types folder-- pgadmin shows source ddl for
all database objects

Also, composite types (CREATE TYPE AS), are trivially reverse
engineered from the column lists. Non composite types are a little
more complicated.

side thought -- it would be nice for pg_restore to be able to extract
more specific objects out of the custom format dump than what it
currently allows...types for example.

merlin