[ please refrain from top-quoting, and try not to repeat the entire previous post; we do have archives you know ] Rick Gigger <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Philippe Ferreira wrote: >> Do a "pgdump" of both databases, and use the "diff" tool to compare >> the two generated files ! > Is the ordering guaranteed to be the same on both boxes if you do this? For recent pg_dumps (since 8.0 I think) it should be the same as long as both DBs are actually identical. If there are different interobject dependencies, that might force different dump orders. regards, tom lane