Re: [SQL] Postgres schema comparison.

Are you just synching the schemas, or do you also need to synch the data?

Rick

John DeSoi
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03/07/2005 07:39 AM

On Mar 7, 2005, at 4:33 AM, Stef wrote:

> I have the wonderful job of re-synch'ing all the schemas out there not
> conforming to the master. I've looked everywhere for something that
> will help doing this. I'm specifically looking for a way to do a
> sumcheck
> or something similar on tables and/or schema as a whole to be able to
> do a table comparison with the master database.
>

Develop a function that builds a string describing the tables/schemas
you want to compare. Then have your function return the md5 sum of the
string as the result. This will give you a 32 character value you can
use to determine if there is a mismatch.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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