Re: pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables?
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Msg-id 4B2C7C66.8020705@postnewspapers.com.au
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In response to pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables?  ("Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@intel.com>)
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On 19/12/2009 2:24 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Are metadata creation strings, in sql form, stored anywhere in the
> metadata tables?

Not AFAIK, no.

How would you handle subsequent ALTER commands and the like? What if you
ALTERed two tables in a way that could only succeed if done in a
particular order (such as creating a foreign key relationship between
two tables) ?

Have a look at pg_dump . It knows how to create appropriate DDL to
re-create particular schema objects, and can handle the various ordering
and dependency issues involved.

--
Craig Ringer

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