Re: How to see a RULE definition?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Goodman <jogoodma(at)lanl(dot)gov> writes:
> > ... I was able to figure out that all the rules
> > for a particular DB are stored in the pg_rewrite table but that seems
> > almost unreadable for a human. What I would like is a command that spits
> > out the create syntax I used when the rule was first created.
>
> See the (woefully undocumented) pg_get_ruledef() function. pg_dump uses
> this.

Or just

SELECT * FROM pg_rules;

> A join of pg_rewrite against pg_class should do it for you ...

The above *IS* the join against these two. And there are
pg_tables and pg_views as well.

Jan :-)

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