Re: Postgres schema comparison.

From: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
To: Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za>
Cc: pgsql-ADMIN(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres schema comparison.
Date: 2005-03-07 12:39:30
Message-ID: F393FF18-8F05-11D9-A12B-000A95B03262@pgedit.com
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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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