Re: Adding SHOW CREATE TABLE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Adding SHOW CREATE TABLE
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Msg-id 895df15a-3d11-92e0-a420-290a6d34634a@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Adding SHOW CREATE TABLE  (Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com>)
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On 2023-06-01 Th 16:39, Kirk Wolak wrote:
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 3:13 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

On 2023-06-01 Th 12:57, Kirk Wolak wrote:

PS: It dawned on me that if pg_dump had used server side code to generate its DDL, its complexity would drop.

Maybe, that remains to be seen. pg_dump needs to produce SQL that is suitable for the target database, not the source database. 


First, pg_dump has some special needs in addressing how it creates tables, to be able to load the data BEFORE indexing, and constraining (lest you have to struggle with dependencies of FKs, etc etc)...

But version checking is interesting... Because I found no way to tell pg_dump what DB to target. 


The target version is implicitly the version it's built from.


cheers


andrew


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