Re: [SQL] Postgres schema comparison.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za>
Cc: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>, pgsql-ADMIN(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Postgres schema comparison.
Date: 2005-03-07 14:30:53
Message-ID: 22961.1110205853@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za> writes:
> Markus Schaber mentioned :
> => But maybe a pg_dump --schema-only on all the databases, and then
> => manually diffing the files may already fulfil your needs.

> I've tested something similar, that seems to work ok for me for now :
> pg_dump -s -t [TABLE] [DBNAME] | grep -v "^--" | md5sum

> The problem I have with this, is that I have to run the command per table,

Why?

If the problem is varying order of table declarations, try 8.0's
pg_dump.

regards, tom lane

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