Re: Exporting just schema/metadata (w/o data) in Postgres

When I worked at United Devices we created an XML schema representation
that did a number of things:

Created schemas for DB2, Oracle, and eventually PostgreSQL
Created many simple stored procs automatically (DB2 and Oracle
syntax-check stored procs at compile, so this was a great way to catch
bad SQL)
Created documentation
Created a C interface layer

Unfortunately, I never could convince the guy who wrote all this to
release it because he felt it was an ugly hack.

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 06:05:27PM +0530, Gandalf Me wrote:
> Thanks!
> Is there a tool which allows me to import this metadata across different
> databases (postgres, oracle, db2)? Any standard format for storing the
> metadata.
> Basically, I want my application to run on multiple DBs, and I want to
> create the same schema in all DBs with minimal effort.
> I understand different DBs ahve different types and one need to do the
> mapping and all, but does such a generic tool exists.
>
> Regards.
>
> On 9/30/05, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Gandalf Me wrote:
> > > I was just wondering if we can export just the schema/metadata in
> > > Postgres (i.e. just the table and column information, without the data).
> > > Is there an easy way to do this in Postgres?
> >
> > pg_dump --help is your friend.
> >
> > You are looking for the -s flag.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> >
> >
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