Re: Adding SHOW CREATE TABLE

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-05-26T12:33:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
On 2023-05-25 Th 09:23, Jelte Fennema wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 13:52, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>> A performant server side set of functions would be written in C and follow the patterns in ruleutils.c.
> We have lots of DDL ruleutils in our Citus codebase:
> https://github.com/citusdata/citus/blob/main/src/backend/distributed/deparser/citus_ruleutils.c
>
> I'm pretty sure we'd be happy to upstream those if that meant, we
> wouldn't have to update them for every postgres release.
>
> We also have the master_get_table_ddl_events UDF, which does what SHOW
> CREATE TABLE would do.


Sounds promising. I'd love to see a patch.


cheers


andrew

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