Re: Get the table creation DDL

On 7/10/22 13:57, Michael Nolan wrote:
> I do not know those other tools, but there should be documentation for
> them, as there is in the man page for how to process just one table
> using pg_dump.   You can pipe the output of pg_dump directly to psql,
> but I find that's seldom useful.
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> Mike Nolan

There is an extension which does precisely what you need:

https://github.com/MichaelDBA/pg_get_tabledef

In my opinion, that is a little inconsistency on the part of the
maintainers part because there are functions pg_get_functiondef,
pg_get_indexdef and pg_get_viewdef  but nothing for tables.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-info.html

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