On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:22 -0400, Mark Fenbers wrote: > I am an ex-Informix convert. Informix used the term "schema" to refer > to the SQL-format definition of how a table or view was created. E.g., > CREATE TABLE john ( char(8) lid, ...); Some views we have are quite > complex (and not created by me) and I want to create a similar one in > Pg. If I could see the view in this SQL format, then I could use SQL to > create another one using this as a template. > > pgadmin3 can show this definition in SQL format, but I can't use > pgadmin3 on a certain box. How can I show information in Pg (psql) the > way that Informix would show a schema? > > BTW, what does PostgreSQL call this (what Informix calls a schema)??
Just use pg_dump to dump/backup the schema. Don't include the data; it is just like doing an Informix "dbschema -d {database}" pg_dump -U OGo --schema-only OGo -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly