Re: pg_dump: Sorted output, referential integrity

At 10:02 8/12/01 +1100, Philip Warner wrote:
>At 15:16 7/12/01 +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
>>>
>>> Not really very generalizable when you consider user defined types,
>>> triggers etc.
>>
>>Hmmm. But if we have a primary key on columns (A,B,C) and request the data
>>'order by A,B,C' this should be portable, shouldn't it?
>>If we don't have a primary key simply ordering by 1,2,3,...n should also
>work.
>>Or am I missing something?
>
>My mistake; I thought you wanted to compare metadata. Sorting data by PK
>seems like a reasonable thing to do.
>

To make the dump diff-able, we probably need to sort the metadata by type &
name as well.


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