What I would like to see is some builtin functions that give me the
table's DDL, just as pg_dump does. Extra nice would be complementary
functions that also give me skeleton select statements for each table or
view.
Yeah, what I first thought David was proposing was a consolidated view
similar to pg_indexes, that could give you an up-to-date DDL definition
for anything in the system. This has been proposed in the past as a way
to migrate pg_dump functionality into the backend. I don't think it
will actually work for that (pg_dump needs more understanding of what
it's doing than just blindly copying complete CREATE commands) --- but
it still seems potentially useful for manual operations.
We have many pg_get_blahdef() functions already, but we really should
flesh them all out so that they are available for every database object, eg:
pg_get_tabledef()
pg_get_domaindef()
pg_get_functiondef()
etc.
That would also be cool because then I'd have an easy way of dumping
individual objects from phpPgAdmin, or pgAdmin ,etc.
Chris
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