Re: [GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Neil Anderson
>> Cluster comparison would only occur if you have two or more clusters on >> the same server, although it's possible to compare across servers, > > > Explain, because as I understand it a server = one cluster: > I think he was using server in the server=one machine sense, ie a single

Re: [GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Neil Anderson
> > > Cluster comparison would only occur if you have two or more clusters on > the same server, although it's possible to compare across servers, > but that would involve a lot more work. AFAIK, the only differences for a > cluster would be: > 1. PostgreSQL version > 2. path to database > 3.

Re: [GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 05/28/2017 07:53 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote: Cluster comparison would only occur if you have two or more clusters on the same server, although it's possible to compare across servers, Explain, because as I understand it a server = one cluster:

Re: [GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Anderson writes: > I guess I don't know what is the most common way to say that it > compares everything but the data. Any suggestions from your > experience? FWIW, I think it's pretty common to use "schema" in an abstract way to mean "the structure of your

Re: [GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Melvin Davidson
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 05/28/2017 05:49 AM, Neil Anderson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm working on a tool that can compare the properties of Postgres >> objects from different instances, finding the differences and >> outputting the

Re: [GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 05/28/2017 05:49 AM, Neil Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm working on a tool that can compare the properties of Postgres objects from different instances, finding the differences and outputting the update SQL. It can compare objects that are defined at the cluster, database or schema level. As such

[GENERAL] Help with terminology to describe what my software does please?

2017-05-28 Thread Neil Anderson
Hi, I'm working on a tool that can compare the properties of Postgres objects from different instances, finding the differences and outputting the update SQL. It can compare objects that are defined at the cluster, database or schema level. As such I'm finding it difficult to describe what the