Re: pg_dump --split patch

On 12/28/2010 11:59 AM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> 2010/12/28 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>>
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>     That has at least as many failure modes as the other representation.
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> I don't follow, what do you mean with "failure modes"? The oid in the 
> filename? I suggested to use a sequence instead but you didn't comment 
> on that. Are there any other failure modes which could cause a diff -r 
> between two different databases to break?
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> (This might be a bad idea for some other reason, but I noticed a few 
> other users requesting the same feature when I googled "pg_dump split".)
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A better approach to the problem might be to have a tool which did a 
comparison of structures rather than a textual comparison of dumps. For 
extra credit, such a tool might even try to produce a sync script for 
you ...

Of course, that task might involve more effort than you want to devote 
to it.

cheers

andrew