Re: How to validate restore of backup?

On 2024-08-23 08:13:40 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2024-08-22 16:09:47 +0500, Muhammad Usman Khan wrote:
> > For validation of databases, you can use the following approach
> >
> > /usr/pgsql-16/bin/pg_dump -d postgres -h localhost -p 5428 | md5sum > /var/lib/
> > pgsql/db1.txt
> > /usr/pgsql-16/bin/pg_dump -d postgres -h localhost -p 5420 | md5sum > /var/lib/
> > pgsql/db2.txt
> > diff db1.txt db2.txt
> >
> > By executing above queries, if diff is null then it means there is no
> > difference between source and destination databases.
>
> But on the other hand, if the diff is null, it doesn't mean there is a

That should have read "if the diff is NOT null", of course.

> (meaningful) difference between the databases.

hp

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