From: | Wilfried Schobeiri <schobeiriw(at)videofurnace(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Feature Request - Table Definition query |
Date: | 2008-10-28 19:04:59 |
Message-ID: | 8F38740B-B490-4D19-AD04-8DD52482578E@videofurnace.com |
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Howdy!
It was suggested to me that this proposed feature is interesting
enough to be floated around for discussion.
Don't get your hopes up, because the request is extremely simple:
It could be useful to have a command that returns the table definition
(like pg_dump -st) from within the query interface. This could be
particularly useful if one doesn't have access to or prefers not to
manipulate results coming from a shell. If I have an API from which to
query the database, it seems silly to have to spawn a shell and run a
command to query the very same database.
(I'm not exactly familiar with how pg_dump manipulates or extracts
that data, so this could be a very, very stupid question. If so,
please forgive me.)
Regards,
Wilfried Schobeiri
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