How can I do a dump of only the table structure in PostgreSQL?

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In a similar vein to this question, how would I do a schema-only dump in PostgreSQL?

score 61 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '09 at 04:19

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pg_dump --schema-only

answered Aug 31 '09 at 04:19

jldugger

easier than I realized it would be :) – warren Aug 31 '09 at 04:22
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Frankly, I haven't much clue about postgres administration, but I've been watching videos from pgcon 09 and someone mentioned pg_dump. – jldugger Aug 31 '09 at 04:27
either way - it's what I needed :) – warren Sep 07 '09 at 13:41
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@warren: it's even easier: `pg_dump -s`. – hans0l0 Nov 20 '13 at 14:58

arod · Answer 2 · 2017-03-04T22:46:02.350

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If you only want the CREATE TABLE statements, then you can do pg_dump -s databasename | awk 'RS="";/CREATE TABLE[^;]*;/'

edited Mar 04 '17 at 22:46

answered May 28 '15 at 18:22

arod

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Not sure why the downvotes as this command works perfectly. So +1 from me. – Dave Mar 04 '17 at 19:17
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That was the rigth answer to me, because i couldn't create file with functions, views and etc. – Natan Medeiros Jun 18 '18 at 12:27
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@Dave because adding an additional option not at all linked to the initial question 6 years later is not that useful. – Arne Nov 21 '18 at 13:28
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@Arne. Disagree. The question title, which specifies dumping "only the table structure", gives this page a high search rank. And plenty of people, like Natan who remarked prior to you, want to avoid moving functions and/or views from old extensions in the event that they are starting with a fresh db with updated extensions. So it absolutely is "useful", as opposed to "not useful", which are the voting criteria. Absolutely getting my +1. – elrobis Aug 09 '19 at 19:23
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@Dave. I think that this answer is right. I opened because the title. I'm searching table-only struct dump. This is better than the other or the title is not acurated. – Emilio Platzer Oct 09 '19 at 14:20

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