SHOW CREATE VIEW

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The SHOW CREATE VIEW statement shows the CREATE VIEW statement that would create a copy of the specified view.

Required Privileges

The user must have any privilege on the target view.

Synopsis

SHOW CREATE VIEW view_name

Parameters

Parameter Description
view_name The name of the view for which to show the CREATE VIEW statement.

Response

Field Description
View The name of the view.
CreateView The CREATE VIEW statement for creating a copy of the specified view.

Examples

Show the CREATE VIEW statement for a view

> SHOW CREATE VIEW bank.user_accounts;
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|        View        |                                CreateView                                 |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| bank.user_accounts | CREATE VIEW "bank.user_accounts" AS SELECT type, email FROM bank.accounts |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(1 row)

Show just a view's SELECT statement

To get just a view's SELECT statement, you can query the views table in the built-in information_schema database and filter on the view name:

> SELECT view_definition
  FROM information_schema.views
  WHERE table_name = 'user_accounts';
+---------------------------------------+
|            view_definition            |
+---------------------------------------+
| SELECT type, email FROM bank.accounts |
+---------------------------------------+
(1 row)

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