Scott Marlowe wrote: > > COMMENT ON FUNCTION namedConfGen(TEXT,TEXT) IS '$Id: sproc.api.namedConfGen ,v 1. > > 8 2004/05/07 08:02:55 ianf Exp $'; > > > > Now I can cvs diff using the version numbers. Not ideal, but at > > least I know exactly where I am. > > I just pass a schema backup through grep or sed with this option: > > grep -Pv "^--" > > and get a pretty good idea of the differences. > > Since our databases are created by scripts as well, they generally share > creation order and such, so any small difference from missing a script > on one or another environment shows up with this. Yes, I've done that too, but grepping for the comments which have the CVS ID. Both can be sorted so you get a reasonable diff. However, if the creation order is different, then a straight diff of the full schema dumps is useless. I see that there is a way to dump a single table 'pg_dump -t table' so you could dump a table at a time and diff the individual tables. I see that there is no similar option for functions, triggers, types and opperators (have I left anything out?). Then these dumps could be entirely scripted and usefull diff output could be obtained. I guess I could write a perl function to dump the relevant bits of the information schema in a way that will diff nicely. I'll look into that next time I need to do this. Ian -- Ian Freislich
