Re: Immodest Proposal: pg_catalog.pg_ddl

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >>What I would like to see is some builtin functions that give me the 
> >>table's DDL, just as pg_dump does. Extra nice would be complementary 
> >>functions that also give me skeleton select statements for each table or 
> >>view.
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, what I first thought David was proposing was a consolidated view
> > similar to pg_indexes, that could give you an up-to-date DDL definition
> > for anything in the system.  This has been proposed in the past as a way
> > to migrate pg_dump functionality into the backend.  I don't think it
> > will actually work for that (pg_dump needs more understanding of what
> > it's doing than just blindly copying complete CREATE commands) --- but
> > it still seems potentially useful for manual operations.
> 
> We have many pg_get_blahdef() functions already, but we really should 
> flesh them all out so that they are available for every database object, eg:
> 
> pg_get_tabledef()
> pg_get_domaindef()
> pg_get_functiondef()
> 
> etc.
> 
> That would also be cool because then I'd have an easy way of dumping 
> individual objects from phpPgAdmin, or pgAdmin ,etc.

Functions added to existing TODO entry.

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