I wrote a utility once at a company where I worked previously that did this.
It did compared the meta data tables of the the two schemas. This was in
Oracle though. I think it took me less than a week to do. It might be a nice
utility to build for postgres.

It started with code as

SELECT TABLE_NAME
     FROM USER_TABLES
MINUS
SELECT TABLE_NAME
    FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/
And vice versa.

It then compared columns of common tables, the characteristics of the
columns, the indexes etc and used PL/SQL.

Vincent Hikida,
Member of Technical Staff - Urbana Software, Inc.
"A Personalized Learning Experience"

www.UrbanaSoft.com

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