Re: [ADMIN] Schema comparisons

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Alex J(dot) Avriette" <alex(at)posixnap(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mark Lubratt <mark(dot)lubratt(at)indeq(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Schema comparisons
Date: 2004-03-03 08:14:31
Message-ID: 200403030814.31396.dev@archonet.com
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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 03:44, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Someone wrote a utility called 'pgdiff' that generated the SQL commands
> necessary to transform on db in to another IIRC.

I think it was started, but didn't reach completion (if we're thinking about
the same thing).

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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