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From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application
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In response to how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application  ("Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa@gmail.com>)
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> I want to get the output from
>
> pg_dump --struct-only --table=whatever
>
> inside a programm. Of course I could call pg_dump in a
> seperate process and capture the output and all; but ...
>
> as PGAdmin is doing it someway, I strongly suspect there is a
> kind of call to recreate the DML language from a table in the
> database. Please give me a hint!

AFAIK, pgadmin opens a pipe to pg_dump.

//Magnus

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