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

Question

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

Solution 1

pg_dump --schema-only

Solution 2

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

Comments

[warren]

easier than I realized it would be :)

[jldugger]

Frankly, I haven't much clue about postgres administration, but I've been watching videos from pgcon 09 and someone mentioned pg_dump.

[warren]

either way - it's what I needed :)

[hans0l0]

@warren: it's even easier: pg_dump -s.

[Dave]

Not sure why the downvotes as this command works perfectly. So +1 from me.

[Arne]

@Dave because adding an additional option not at all linked to the initial question 6 years later is not that useful.

[elrobis]

@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.

[Emilio Platzer]

@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.