Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-05-02 Thread Lucas Brito
Nicholas, To use the dblink: 1. In your postgres server you should find a file *dblink.sql*. In my beta installation is in *share/postgresql/contrib*. It is the installation for the dblink contrib module that usually is already compiled in. It will create a lot of dblink functions.

Fwd: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-05-02 Thread Isaac Dover
i've not tried this in postgres, but using information_schema makes comparing structures of databases trivial. i've been using this query for a while with MSSQL. Maybe this helps to answer the question. - isaac select ST.Table_Name, ST.Column_Name, DV.Table_Name, DV.Column_Name, * from

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-05-02 Thread Lucas Brito
2009/5/2 Isaac Dover isaacdo...@gmail.com i've not tried this in postgres, but using information_schema makes comparing structures of databases trivial. i've been using this query for a while with MSSQL. Maybe this helps to answer the question. - isaac select ST.Table_Name, ST.Column_Name,

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-05-02 Thread Isaac Dover
Thank you, Lucas. I'm from the MS world, still learning these PG things. Though, it appears that the difference is somewhat minor. In my actual implementation, [other database] would be a linked server, which sounds like it would be similar to the PG dblink. Regardless, I've found information

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-05-01 Thread John Zhang
; Pawel Socha; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org *Subject:* Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database Hi All, For example, There are two database. database1 and database 2; database1 has a table called pr_1 with the columns, id,name and time. database2 has a table called

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-05-01 Thread Wei Weng
On 05/01/2009 11:55 AM, John Zhang wrote: Hi Nicholas, The query is across database query. dblink is needed for that task. Hope it helps, John On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Edward W. Rouse ero...@comsquared.com mailto:ero...@comsquared.com wrote: Can’t you use this? select

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-04-29, Nicholas I nicholas.domni...@gmail.com wrote: --000e0cd1d5062f2ca40468abd813 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. you probably want to use some sort of

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Nicholas I
Hi All, For example, There are two database. database1 and database 2; database1 has a table called pr_1 with the columns, id,name and time. database2 has a table called sr_1 with the_columns id,name and time. i would like to find out the differences that is, find the

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Osvaldo Kussama
2009/4/29 Nicholas I nicholas.domni...@gmail.com:   can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. Two PostgreSQL databases: dblink http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/dblink.html Distinct DBMS: dbilink http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:20:02AM +1000, Adam Ruth wrote: The simple answer is to pg_dump both tables and compare the output with diff. Other than that, I think you'll need a custom program. For all but the strictest definition of identical, that won't work. Tables may easily contain

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Edward W. Rouse
] On Behalf Of Nicholas I Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:12 AM To: Joshua Tolley Cc: Adam Ruth; Pawel Socha; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database Hi All, For example, There are two database. database1 and database 2; database1 has

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-04-29, Nicholas I nicholas.domni...@gmail.com wrote: --000e0cd1d5062f2ca40468abd813 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. you want to use a join but can't...

[SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-29 Thread Nicholas I
Hi, can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. -Nicholas I

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-29 Thread Pawel Socha
2009/4/29 Nicholas I nicholas.domni...@gmail.com: Hi,   can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. -Nicholas I what you mean 'different database' :) diffrent version, 2 instance ? Maybe this help: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/dblink.html

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-29 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Nicholas I, 29.04.2009 08:39: Hi, can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. Do you want to compare the data or the structure of the two tables? Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-29 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello try to look on http://pgfoundry.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1392 regards Pavel Stehule 2009/4/29 Nicholas I nicholas.domni...@gmail.com: Hi,   can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different database. -Nicholas I -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-29 Thread Adam Ruth
The simple answer is to pg_dump both tables and compare the output with diff. Other than that, I think you'll need a custom program. On 29/04/2009, at 10:33 PM, Pawel Socha wrote: 2009/4/29 Nicholas I nicholas.domni...@gmail.com: Hi, can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables