> It's more like a question of best practice:
> How do you managing different version of database layout for e.g.
> software releases?
> We are planing to do an application based on postgres and want to store
> some version number of database layout to ensure correct upgrade-scripts
> can be applied in case of an upgrade. Is there any build in for?
We (www.gnumed.de) generate the md5 of a concatenation of the database
layout (tables/columns/PKs) which the client checks against and disconnects
if there's a mismatch.
Karsten
