How can I generate the DDL of a table programmatically on Postgresql? Is there a system query or command to do it? Googling the issue returned no pointers.
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How can I generate the DDL of a table programmatically on Postgresql? Is there a system query or command to do it? Googling the issue returned no pointers.
The answer is to check the source code for pg_dump and follow the switches it uses to generate the DDL. Somewhere inside the code there’s a number of queries used to retrieve the metadata used to generate the DDL.