Re: [HACKERS] possibly updating techdocs; mysql2pgsql on gborg

hi,
just a contrib/mysql/README patch. Somehow the links got reversed.

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< http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/mysql2psql/projdisplay.php
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> http://www.omnistarinc.com/~fonin/downloads.php#my2pg
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< Another tool, mysql2pgsql, can be found at:
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> A third tool, mysql2pgsql.perl, can be found at:
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< http://www.omnistarinc.com/~fonin/downloads.php#my2pg
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> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/mysql2psql/projdisplay.php

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:45:51AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> Hey Joseph, just noticed this in my drafts folder... not sure why it was
> there, hope it makes sense to you :-)
>
> ----
> OK, I have updated the link on the techdocs site, and after looking at your
> project statement have a few recommendations for you. The first is that you
> need to put some mention that your script is a descendant of Dobrica's script
> just to give props to those who came before but also so people know to use
> your script over the old one. Second, you need to send a patch to
> pgsql-patches for the postgresql core server that updates
> contrib/mysql/README and contrib/mysql/mysql2pgsql.pl to reference your newer
> script. Since we are technically past feature freeze, you need to include a
> list of any bugs that were fixed in the old script by the new script.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Robert Treat
>
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 17:22, you wrote:
> > > I don't see the old link you are referring to (and neither did grep); is
> > > this on the main page of techdocs or someplace else?
> > >
> > > Robert Treat
> >
> > If the main page is http://techdocs.postgresql.org/
> > (which may be index.htm or index.php but my browser doesn't show) that is
> > where the outdated link is.
> >
> > This is what I see when I do "view source" on that page:
> >
> > <li><a
> > href="/redir.php?link=http://docman.sourceforge.net/home_html/projects/sql/
> >mysql2pgsql" target="_blank">mysql2pgsql</a> - A Perl script used to convert
> > MySQL databases dump to a PostgreSQL-compatible format, by <a
> > href="/redir.php?link=mailto:dpavlin(at)rot13(dot)org" target="_blank">Dobrica
> > Pavlinusic</a></li>
> >
> > HISTORY
> > =======
> > Dobrica Pavlinusic has a project called docman at sourceforge
> > In a subdirectory of the project there he put the file mysql2pgsql
> > That file on sourceforge hasn't been edited since 19-Apr-2001 (dir listing)
> > The most recent version of the mysql2pgsql script is at
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/mysql2psql/projdisplay.php
> >
> > thanks for your reply.
> >
> > joesp
>
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