Re: Adding SHOW CREATE TABLE

Jeremy Smith <jeremy@musicsmith.net>

From: Jeremy Smith <jeremy@musicsmith.net>
To: Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-13T19:34:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
On Sat, May 13, 2023, 3:25 AM Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does this imply SQL SYNTAX like:
>
> SHOW CREATE TABLE <table_name>
>   [ INCLUDING { ALL | INDEXES |  SEQUENCES | ??? }]
>   [EXCLUDING { PK | FK | COMMENTS | STORAGE | } ]
>   [FOR {V11 | V12 | V13 | V14 | V15 }] ??
> ?
>

Personally, I would expect a function, like pg_get_tabledef(oid), to match
the other pg_get_*def functions instead of overloading SHOW.  To me, this
also argues that we shouldn't include indexes because we already have a
pg_get_indexdef function.

      -Jeremy

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