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Re: Schema Upgrade Howto

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:37:43PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found a way to do it.

It's the wrong way.  Trust me on this.

> One problem remains: The order of the columns can't be changed.  Any
> change to make postgres support this in the future?

It's been proposed several times :)

> My way:
> 
> pg_dump -s prod  | strip-schema-dump.py - > prod.schema
> pg_dump -s devel | strip-schema-dump.py - > devel.schema
> 
> strip-schema-dump.py removes some stuff which I don't care about (Owner, Comments, ...)
> 
> kdiff3 prod.schema devel.schema
> 
> You need to create an upgrade script by looking at the diff. 

No.  Really, no.  You need to create the upgrade script by creating
upgrade scripts, not by reverse engineering.

Cheers,
David.
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