How to see the CREATE VIEW code for a view in PostgreSQL?

Question

Is there an easy way to see the code used to create a view using the PostgreSQL command-line client?

Something like the SHOW CREATE VIEW from MySQL.

Answer 1

GoodNews from v.9.6 and above, View editing are now native from psql. Just invoke \ev command. View definitions will show in your configured editor.

julian@assange=# \ev {your_view_names}

Bonus. Some useful command to interact with query buffer.

Query Buffer
  \e [FILE] [LINE]       edit the query buffer (or file) with external editor
  \ef [FUNCNAME [LINE]]  edit function definition with external editor
  \ev [VIEWNAME [LINE]]  edit view definition with external editor
  \p                     show the contents of the query buffer
  \r                     reset (clear) the query buffer
  \s [FILE]              display history or save it to file
  \w FILE                write query buffer to file