Re: Adding SHOW CREATE TABLE

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 3:34 PM Jeremy Smith <jeremy@musicsmith.net> wrote:

On Sat, May 13, 2023, 3:25 AM Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com> wrote:

Does this imply SQL SYNTAX like:

SHOW CREATE TABLE <table_name> 

  [ INCLUDING { ALL | INDEXES |  SEQUENCES | ??? }] 

  [EXCLUDING { PK | FK | COMMENTS | STORAGE | } ] 

  [FOR {V11 | V12 | V13 | V14 | V15 }] ??

?

Personally, I would expect a function, like pg_get_tabledef(oid), to match the other pg_get_*def functions instead of overloading SHOW.  To me, this also argues that we shouldn't include indexes because we already have a pg_get_indexdef function.

      -Jeremy

+1

In fact, making it a function will make my life easier for testing, that's for certain.  I don't need to involve the parser,etc.  Others can help with that after the function works.

Thanks for the suggestion!