I guess it would be great if Pgsql had a way to find a database
definition via a system stored procedure like other database platforms
have.
There are two ways I've found so far:
SELECT
attname as name, typname as type, atttypmod - 4 as size,
relhaspkey as is_primary_key, *
FROM
pg_class
One other option, which I had forgotten for a long time, was:
\d object name
...which can describe many things, although this doesn't give you the
CREATE syntax like a pg_dump can do. Please also note that a pg_dump
can dump output to the screen if you don't specify a file, so if
you're only
Google Mike wrote:
I guess it would be great if Pgsql had a way to find a database
definition via a system stored procedure like other database platforms
have.
There are a few:
nexcerpt=# \df pg_get*def
List of functions
Result data type | Schema | Name
