Re: Compare rows

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegelberg@cranel.com>
Cc: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-08T16:46:43Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
Greg Spiegelberg wrote:
> The reason for my initial question was this.  We save changes only.
> In other words, if system S has row T1 for day D1 and if on day D2
> we have another row T1 (excluding our time column) we don't want
> to save it.

It still isn't entirely clear to me what you are trying to do, but 
perhaps some sort of calculated checksum or hash would work to determine 
if the data has changed?

Joe