Thread: pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables?

pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables?

From
"Gauthier, Dave"
Date:

Hi:

 

Are metadata creation strings, in sql form, stored anywhere in the metadata tables?  So if I...

 

create table foo (x int);

 

I would like to pull that same string from somewhere.

 

Thanks in Advance

Re: pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables?

From
Craig Ringer
Date:
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.

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Craig Ringer