RE: database "diff"

["Mercado, Ronaldo \(DLSLtd, RAL, LSCI\) via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi.

 

I don’t use VDCT or GDCT, only epics databases.

I built a linux tool (attached) to compare databases using the parser from epics base.

I hope it’s useful.

I found that it only works for old versions of epics (3.14.12.x) because the dbStaticHost library is no longer built in epics base.

(Why not?)

 

To build, edit the makefile to point to epics base also edit ‘scompare.conf’ to point to your paths,dbd files and db files.

The ‘path’ line accepts colon separated folders. I generally use it like that, listing the dbd and db folder for my iocs.

 

Regards,

Ronaldo

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of DiMonte, Nicholas via Tech-talk
Sent: 20 March 2020 22:35
To: Paul Sichta <psichta at pppl.gov>; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: database "diff"

 

Paul,

At the APS we had GDCT modified to add convert function to VDCT. The conversion maintained the graphical layout which was really nice. We only have a Solaris build if my memory serves me right.

Andrew Johnson might be able to help you get a copy of this version.

Regards,
Nicholas D.

On 3/20/20 1:44 PM, Paul Sichta via Tech-talk wrote:

We're converting our (~200) databases from gdct to vdct.  After we drag around the records in vdct to visually arrange the linked records, we want to perform a final check to compare the original and the vdct records. We plan to write a text processing program/script to do this,  but...

 

Has anyone made a tool to compare the records and their fields in two database files?  Is there a utility (in the IOC) to dump a database report that we can compare (before/after)?  Does the old dbreport extension provide reports that list a record's field information that we can compare?

 

 

We're doing this because gdct doesn't run on Linux (right?).

 

Thanks,

-ps

 

 

 

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