On tis, 2010-12-28 at 12:33 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > (2) randomly different ordering of rows within a table. Your patch > didn't address that, unless I misunderstood quite a bit.
This issue here is just comparing schemas, so that part is a separate problem for someone else. > I think the correct fix for (1) is to improve pg_dump's method for > sorting objects. It's not that bad now, but it does have issues with > random ordering of similarly-named objects. IIRC Peter Eisentraut > proposed something for this last winter but it seemed a mite too ugly, > and he got beaten down to just this: > > commit 1acc06a1f4ae752793d2199d8d462a6708c8acc2 > Author: Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> > Date: Mon Feb 15 19:59:47 2010 +0000 > > When sorting functions in pg_dump, break ties (same name) by > number of arguments Yes, that was addressing the same underlying problem. Frankly, I have been thinking split files a lot before and since then. If the files were appropriately named, it would remove a lot of problems compared to diffing one even perfectly sorted big dump file. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
