On 12/28/2010 08:18 PM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> 2010/12/29 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>>
>
>
> If you've solved the deterministic-ordering problem, then this entire
> patch is quite useless. You can just run a normal dump and diff it.
>
>
> No, that's only half true.
>
> Diff will do a good job minimizing the "size" of the diff output, yes,
> but such a diff is still quite useless if you want to quickly grasp
> the context of the change.
>
> If you have a hundreds of functions, just looking at the changed
> source code is not enough to figure out which functions were modified,
> unless you have the brain power to memorize every single line of code
> and are able to figure out the function name just by looking at the
> old and new line of codes.
>
>
try:
diff -F '^CREATE' ...
cheers
andrew
