How to generate the “create table” sql statement for an existing table in postgreSQL

Question

I have created a table in postgreSQL. I want to look at the SQL statement used to create the table but cannot figure it out.

How do I get the create table

Answer 1

If you want to do this for various tables at once, you meed to use the -t switch multiple times (took me a while to figure out why comma separated list wasn't working). Also, can be useful to send results to an outfile or pipe to a postgres server on another machine

pg_dump -t table1 -t table2 database_name --schema-only > dump.sql

pg_dump -t table1 -t table2 database_name --schema-only | psql -h server_name database_name