From: | "Edward W(dot) Rouse" <erouse(at)comsquared(dot)com> |
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Subject: | Re: Comparing two tables of different database |
Date: | 2009-04-30 22:07:41 |
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Can't you use this?
select name from database2.sr_1 where name not in (select name from
database2.pr_1);
My test database VM isn't running so I can't test it, but I seem to remember
that that's how I did it for a few queries of that type. This is assuming
the 2 databases are running on the same machine, like the way there is
template0 as the default and you add addition databases to the same
'instance'. If you are talking about 2 different database servers, then I
have no idea.
Edward W. Rouse
From: pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]
On Behalf Of Nicholas I
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:12 AM
To: Joshua Tolley
Cc: Adam Ruth; Pawel Socha; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database
Hi All,
For example,
There are two database. database1 and database 2;
database1 has a table called pr_1 with the columns, id,name and time.
database2 has a table called sr_1 with the_columns id,name and time.
i would like to find out the differences that is, find the names that
are not in sr_1 but in pr_1.
we can achieve this by the query,
select name from sr_1 where name not in (select name from pr_1);
the above query will work in case of two tables in the same database.
But the problem is, these two tables are in different database. i did
not understand about the dblink.
is there any exaples on dblink. can we do it without using dblink.
-Nicholas I
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:20:02AM +1000, Adam Ruth wrote:
> The simple answer is to pg_dump both tables and compare the output with
> diff.
> Other than that, I think you'll need a custom program.
For all but the strictest definition of "identical", that won't work.
Tables may easily contain the same information, in different on-disk
order, and pg_dump will most likely give the data to you in an order
similar to its ordering on disk.
Something like a COPY (<query>) TO <file>, where <query> includes an
ORDER BY clause, might give you a suitable result from both tables, on
which you could then take a checksum.
- Josh / eggyknap
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