From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Stef <svb@ucs.co.za>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Table versions
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:49:40 -0500
Message-ID: <15525.1067449780@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> This still suffers from one major deficiency. The order that objects are
> outputed isn't necessarily consistent between databases. If I add tables to
> the development server but then add them to the production server in a
> different order the schema still shows differences even though the objects in
> the two databases are identical.
Yeah. Stef may be able to handle this by comparing single-table dumps
rather than an overall pg_dump. In the long run pg_dump's logic for
ordering objects needs a wholesale rewrite --- maybe that will happen
for 7.5.
regards, tom lane
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