On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now, all that having been said, I also agree that the perfect can be > the enemy of the good, and we go there frequently. The question I'm > asking is not whether the feature is perfect, but whether it's > adequate for even the most basic things people might want to do with > it. Dimitri says that he wants it so that we can add support for > CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, and DROP TABLE to Slony, Bucardo, and > Londiste. My fear is that it won't turn out to be adequate to that > task, because there won't actually be enough information in the CREATE > TABLE statement to do the same thing on all servers. In particular, > you won't have the index or constraint names, and you might not have > the schema or tablespace information either.
But, you could query all that out from the system catalogs right? Maybe a better facility should exist to convert a table name to a create table statement than hand rolling it or invoking pg_dump, but that's a separate issue. This feature fills an important niche given that you can't hook RI triggers to system catalogs...it comes up (in short, +1). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
