Re: pg_dump ORDER BY

From: Nabil Sayegh <nsmail(at)sayegh(dot)de>
To: Joel Burton <jburton(at)scw(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump ORDER BY
Date: 2000-12-07 23:20:59
Message-ID: 3A301B5B.A357356E@sayegh.de
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Joel Burton wrote:

> If you have databases (db1 and db2) and two tables in each
> (t1 and t2), I think it would be easiest to dump each table
> independently (pg_dump -t t1 d1 > /tmp/d1t1) and diff that to its
> sister table.
>
> You could pretty easily turn diff into COPY input.
>
> If you do a full pg_dump of the database, you'll get non-data stuff,
> like all of the sequences, index declarations, etc. (Unless *that's*
> what you want to reconcile.)

Hm, as both databases are of the same structure, this shouldn't be a
problem.
My problem is that updated rows in a table will appear at the bottom of
the
table if not ordered. That leads to falsealarms of diff :(

cu
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Nabil Sayegh

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