Re: pg_dump --split patch

Joel Jacobson <joel@gluefinance.com> writes:
> 2010/12/28 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>> Joel Jacobson <joel@gluefinance.com> writes:
>>> Solution: I propose a new option to pg_dump, --split, which dumps each
>>> object to a separate file in a user friendly directory structure:
>> 
>> Um ... how does that solve the claimed problem exactly?

> Because then you can do,
> $ diff -r <old schema dump dir> <new schema dump dir>,
> instead of,
> $ diff <old entire schema dump> <new entire schema dump>
> which will nicely reveal each individual object modified, as opposed to a
> huge global diff of everything

That has at least as many failure modes as the other representation.
        regards, tom lane