Re: Pg schema diff tools Was: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 08 2007 ==

Hi,

thanks for the links. I've had a quick look at the first two and comment
my findings:

Robert Treat wrote:
> Theres this one which uses tcl:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgdiff

Seems outdated: 2002, PostgreSQL 7.2, ~1500 lines of code. (which I
don't really understand, I simply don't know TCL, sorry.)

> And this one which is written in perl:
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgdiff/projdisplay.php

Yeah, perl is better with me ;-) Anyway, 2003 also isn't that
up-to-date either. ~770 lines of code, but that might very well be
sufficient in many cases.

And as David Fetter pointed out, it's dangerous to rely on such tools,
as they can never replace a change control process.

Regards

Markus