Re: Comparing two PostgreSQL databases -- order of pg_dump output

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Comparing two PostgreSQL databases -- order of pg_dump output
Date: 2011-08-31 08:11:46
Message-ID: 1314778306.27073.4.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On tis, 2011-08-30 at 19:11 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Joe Abbate (jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com) wrote:
> > In order to compare the schema of two presumably identical
> > databases, I've been diffing the output of pg_dump -Osx.
>
> I'm not sure exactly how it does it, but check_postgres.pl offers this.
>
> http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres

That tool is also not without bugs in this regard.

Also, the interface it works with necessarily doesn't offer a good way
to examine the differences in detail; it only shows you that there are
differences.

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