Although now consistent, is there a way to strip out the comments? since
they differ between dbs? Right now, I use grep, but I have this need to
live in a perfect world were everything is just a command line
option..:)
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 16:57, Tom Lane wrote:
> Igor Shevchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Monday 12 April 2004 22:38, you wrote:
> >> ${PG_DUMP} -s -p 5432 mydb|${GREP} -v '^--'|${CAT} -s >5432.sql
> >> ${PG_DUMP} -s -p 5433 mydb|${GREP} -v '^--'|${CAT} -s >5433.sql
> >> ${PG_DUMP} -s -p 5434 mydb|${GREP} -v '^--'|${CAT} -s >5434.sql
> >>
> >> ${DIFF} 5432.sql 5433.sql > 5432-5433.diff
> >> ${DIFF} 5433.sql 5434.sql > 5433-5434.diff
>
> > I used to do exactly this but the pg_dump order is different on my two
> > servers, and this generates lots of false diffs.
>
> FWIW, CVS tip pg_dump has been modified to produce a consistent (and
> safe) dump order, so its output should be a lot more useful for schema
> diff'ing purposes than previous releases were.
>
> It should work to build a current snapshot and use its pg_dump against
> older servers, if you need a solution now.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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