Re: How to clone a table so that primay and foreign keys remain

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2006/11/24, Andrus <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee>:
>
> I need to clone a schema in a database programmatically.
> Using pg_dump.exe to dump chema in plain text, then rename old schema and
> after that
> use pg_restore.exe to restore schema is slow since I need to clone data
> only
> in some smaller tables.
> Most of tables should be cloned without data.
>
> To start this I think I need to clone all schema tables first.
>
> How to create copy of table so that primary keys and foreign keys
> relationships remain ?
>
> I tried
>
> CREATE TABLE clone AS SELECT * FROM original
>
> But this creates plain table.
>
> Any idea ?
> Or where to find sample (simpler that pgAdmin or pg_dump source code)
> which
> re-constructs statements to create primary and foreign keys ?
>
> Andrus.
>
>
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