diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/datasource.ts b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/datasource.ts
index bbbcf96538..1d7643dd7b 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/datasource.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/datasource.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   IntegrationBase,
   DatasourcePlus,
   SourceName,
+  Ctx,
 } from "@budibase/types"
 import sdk from "../../sdk"
 import { builderSocket } from "../../websockets"
@@ -441,3 +442,18 @@ export async function query(ctx: UserCtx) {
     ctx.throw(400, err)
   }
 }
+
+export async function getExternalSchema(ctx: Ctx) {
+  const { datasource } = ctx.request.body
+  const enrichedDatasource = await getAndMergeDatasource(datasource)
+  const connector = await getConnector(enrichedDatasource)
+
+  if (!connector.getExternalSchema) {
+    ctx.throw(400, "Datasource does not support exporting external schema")
+  }
+  const response = await connector.getExternalSchema()
+
+  ctx.body = {
+    schema: response,
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/routes/datasource.ts b/packages/server/src/api/routes/datasource.ts
index f874d3c4aa..c05d1753a2 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/routes/datasource.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/routes/datasource.ts
@@ -66,5 +66,10 @@ router
     authorized(permissions.BUILDER),
     datasourceController.destroy
   )
+  .get(
+    "/api/datasources/:datasourceId/external-schema",
+    authorized(permissions.BUILDER),
+    datasourceController.getExternalSchema
+  )
 
 export default router
diff --git a/packages/server/src/integrations/postgres.ts b/packages/server/src/integrations/postgres.ts
index 451da5fa8f..54870cf0ec 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/integrations/postgres.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/integrations/postgres.ts
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ class PostgresIntegration extends Sql implements DatasourcePlus {
     const response: ConnectionInfo = {
       connected: false,
     }
+
     try {
       await this.openConnection()
       response.connected = true
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ class PostgresIntegration extends Sql implements DatasourcePlus {
     }
   }
 
-  async getSchema() {
+  async getExternalSchema() {
     const dumpCommandParts = [
       `user=${this.config.user}`,
       `host=${this.config.host}`,
diff --git a/packages/types/src/sdk/datasources.ts b/packages/types/src/sdk/datasources.ts
index 50ea063ca3..bccb7c04d9 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/sdk/datasources.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/sdk/datasources.ts
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ export interface IntegrationBase {
   update?(query: any): Promise<any[] | any>
   delete?(query: any): Promise<any[] | any>
   testConnection?(): Promise<ConnectionInfo>
+  getExternalSchema?(): Promise<string>
 }
 
 export interface DatasourcePlus extends IntegrationBase {