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Thomas D'Silva commented on PHOENIX-5054:
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It should be straightforward to generate the columns of the CREATE TABLE ddl
using the table metadata in SYSTEM.CATALOG. It might be a little trickier to
figure out what table properties because some of them are HBase table
properties (REPLICATION_SCOPE etc). Should we just store the exact ddl
statement that was used while creating the table?
> "look up" the `CREATE TABLE` statement used for a table
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> Key: PHOENIX-5054
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-5054
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Josh Elser
> Priority: Major
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> This is a super common problem we run into:
> # User files report/complaint
> # We ask for DDLs for table and any indexes
> # We receive the output of `describe <table>` from the HBase shell
> Presumably, we have all of the necessary information inside of
> {{SYSTEM.CATALOG}}, we could recreate the {{CREATE TABLE}} statement for a
> table, no? I think it would be super helpful to, at a given point in time,
> obtain the {{CREATE TABLE}} statement to recreate a table as it currently
> exists.
> Split points might be the only thing we can't explicitly do via Phoenix, but
> that's pretty minor compared to everything else.
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