Re: Need create table statements from metadata

On 6/20/19 2:32 PM, David Gauthier wrote:
> psql (9.6.7, server 9.5.2) on linux.
>
> I have 2 DBs, one for dev the other is live.  I want to recreate several
> tables in the dev db using the same metadata found in the live db.  But
> I'm too lazy to manually transcribe everything and that's prone to error
> anyway.
>
> In the past, I would just run pg_dump and capture metadata only for
> selected tables, then use that to (re)create that tables in the other
> DB.  But where I am now, they don't give me the privs to run pg_dump.

When you say metadata are you talking about the DDL for an object?

Use FDW?:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/postgres-fdw.html

>
> So I was wondering if there's a way to do this quickly and cleanly
> without pg_dump.  Perhaps a stored procedure that pg_dump uses (or
> something like that) ?
>
> Thanks in Advance !

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