On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:39:40AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Have you tried diffing pg_dump output? It's not the greatest tool but > >> it's helpful. > > > Yes, I did. It was quite cumbersome. Especially since the OIDs and > > TOC entry numbers didn't matchup; and, since those didn't always match, > > the order of objects wasn't quite the same either. So, diff was > > throwing a lot of false positives at me. > > Yeah. CVS-tip pg_dump doesn't show OIDs by default, to make it easier > to use for purposes like this. The ordering issue is the bigger problem > though. I presume that the object creation history is different in the > two databases and so pg_dump's habit of sorting by OID isn't helpful.
I recently had to figure out what was different between the "live" schema and the schema in cvs at work. This was a really painful process, and it occurred to me that it wouldn't be terribly hard to write a perl program to do it (I wound up using vim and diff). Is there interest in such a tool? I could probably have one written within a day or two. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex J. Avriette, Solaris Systems Masseur http://envy.posixnap.net/~alex/articles/nro-wahhabi.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
