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 <igor@carcass.ath.cx> 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org -- Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah@cs.earlham.edu> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend