Re: [SQL] Table versions
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Stef <svb@ucs.co.za>, Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-10-29T17:49:40Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes: > This still suffers from one major deficiency. The order that objects are > outputed isn't necessarily consistent between databases. If I add tables to > the development server but then add them to the production server in a > different order the schema still shows differences even though the objects in > the two databases are identical. Yeah. Stef may be able to handle this by comparing single-table dumps rather than an overall pg_dump. In the long run pg_dump's logic for ordering objects needs a wholesale rewrite --- maybe that will happen for 7.5. regards, tom lane