Re: Create Table Scripts

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 chuckk(at)ext(dot)usu(dot)edu wrote:
>
> > You know what I think would be pretty cool? If someone out there would
> > tell me that Postgresql can build "Create Table" scripts by looking at
> > an existing table. Then I wouldn't have to re-create my Create Table
> > scirpt files I just incinerated.... Yeah... That would be cool if
> > someone told me it could do that..
>
> pg_dump -s <database>
>
> will dump out scripts to build your database. If you eliminate the -s, it
> will also dump the data as insert statements.

I'm sorry, that's not quite correct -- the -d option will dump your data
as insert statements, otherwise your data gets dumped directly and can be
copied back into the database as a COPY form stdin.

-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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