Re: creating a table based on a table in stored in another database

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Malm Paul <paul(dot)malm(at)saabgroup(dot)com> wrote:

> I can add that I would like to do this in my java application.
> E.i. just create an empty table in database1 which has the same column
> names and types as a table stored in database2.
>
> I tried this for a start:
> stmnt = dbConnection.prepareStatement("select dblink_connect('myconn',
> 'dbname=gemaps')");
> resultset = stmnt.executeQuery();
>
> but got ERROR: function dblink_connect(unknown, unknown) does not exist
>
>
Do you:

A) Install the dblink contrib module?
B) Run the dblink SQL file?

--Scott

/P
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> another database
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> In response to Malm Paul :
> > Hi list,
> > in a database I have different kind of tables. I would like to take the
> meta data from one of those tables and create the same type of table (but
> empty) in another database.
> > Can anyone, please, tell me how to do this?
>
> Create a schema-only dump and restore it into the other database.
>
>
> Regards, Andreas
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