Re: Reverse-engineering table creation statements

On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Thom Brown wrote:

> Erk... I forgot to mention I don't wish to use command-line tools
> either. I would like to submit something as a query in PHP and get
> back a result with the creation script in. This is to modify some
> existing code which is currently only supporting MySQL.

then call pg_dump from PHP??

or be more specific what you really need...

Ries

>
> Thom
>
> 2009/9/14 Chris Barnes <compuguruchrisbarnes(at)hotmail(dot)com>
> pg_dump --schema-only --schema=SCHEMA --table=TABLE
>
> produces creation script.
>
> Chris
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/backup.html
>
> From: thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:15:23 +0100
> Subject: [GENERAL] Reverse-engineering table creation statements
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
>
> Is there a simple way of generating a creation statement for a table
> without using psql or pgAdmin. Basically I'd like to create what
> pgAdmin III shows in the SQL pane when you click on a table. MySQL
> appears to have an equivalent which is SHOW CREATE table [tablename].
>
> Thanks
>
> Thom
>
> Less clicking: Hotmail access on the new MSN homepage.
>

regards, Ries van Twisk

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