Re: Defining the same relation in another database

Shortly:

You just need to user pg_dump and psql. You may use them alltogether
in one piped sentence, or in two different sentences

a)

To run pg_dump, get the schema, no data, a single table, and redirect
STDOUT to the psql command, which should take the imput and follow the
SQL instructions.

pg_dump -s -t table databaseA | psql databaseB

b)

To run pg_dump, get the schema, no data, a single table, and redirect
STDOUT to a file.
You may pickup that file later with psql -f.

1. pg_dump -s -t table databaseA > table_schema.sql
2. psql -f table_schema.sql databaseB

Good luck,
Guido

On 4/19/06, Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw(at)view(dot)net(dot)au> wrote:
> How do you do this? I guess it may require heroic methods such as the
> editing of dumps. Or it is easy?
>
> I'd like to do this because the \d is complicated. I've prototyped
> this thing in a temp database and now I'd like to do it for real. I'd
> rather not copy it down on paper and do it all again.
>
> It is okay to move the relation and its data, but I really just want
> to recreate it in another database.
>
>
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