Re: dos Dbase -> pg table

install DBI, DBD:pg, DBD:XBase, then run this script (after customising the
$dir, $dbf and $dbp lines):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Basename; # for basename() function
use DBI; use DBD::XBase; use DBD::Pg;
my $dir = '/home/fbax/DBFCONV';
my $dbf = DBI->connect("dbi:XBase:$dir", {RaiseError => 1} );
my $dbp = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=fbax", "fbax", "", {RaiseError => 1} );
while (my $fname = <$dir/*.DBF>) {
&DBF2PG ($dbf, $dbp, $fname, basename(substr($fname, 0, length($fname)-4)));
}
$dbf->disconnect;
$dbp->disconnect;

sub DBF2PG {
(my $dbf, my $dbp, my $fname, my $table) = @_;
$table = lc("\"$table\"");
print "$fname - $table\n";
open (PIPE, "dbfdump --info $fname |") or die "Can't open $fname: $!";
my $sql = "CREATE TABLE $table ";
my $sep = "(";
while( <PIPE> ) {
chomp;
if (/^[0-9]+\./) { # line starts with number.
# print "$_\n";
my @stru = split; # stru contains field,type,len,dec
$sql .= $sep.' "'.lc($stru[1]).'"';
if ($stru[2] eq 'D') {
$sql .= " date";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'L') {
$sql .= " boolean";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'M') {
$sql .= " text";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'G') {
$sql .= " text";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'C' && $stru[3] eq 1) {
$sql .= " char";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'C') {
$sql .= " varchar($stru[3])";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' && $stru[4] eq 0 && $stru[3] < 5) {
$sql .= " int2";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' && $stru[4] eq 0 && $stru[3] < 10) {
$sql .= " int4";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' && $stru[4] eq 0) {
$sql .= " int8";
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N') {
$sql .= " numeric($stru[3],$stru[4])";
} else {
$sql .= " $stru[2].$stru[3].$stru[4]";
}
$sep = ',';
}
}
close (PIPE);
$sql .= ' );';
$dbp->{RaiseError} = 0;
$dbp->do( "DROP TABLE $table" );
$dbp->{RaiseError} = 1;
$dbp->do( $sql );

my $sth = $dbf->prepare(" SELECT * FROM ".basename($fname) );
$sth->execute;
while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
$sql = "INSERT INTO $table VALUES ";
$sep = "(";
foreach my $fld (@row) {
$sql .= "$sep ".$dbp->quote($fld);
$sep = ",";
}
$sql .= ' );';
$dbp->do( $sql );
}
$sth->finish;
}

At 08:44 AM 1/3/02 -0300, Fernando M. Maresca wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>There is out there a proggy called dbf2pg (like dbf2mysql) that makes a
good job, but it can not deal with MEMO
>fields. AHHGGG!!!
>So, somebody knows a program that can deal with MEMO fields in (DOS) .dbf
files, or, at least, a program that can
>cut off memo fields of a .dbf file from command line in *nix?
>The idea is to build a script (well, I wrote it and run ok if there are no
MEMOs in source .dbf) that cron.ically
>updates a table from a dbase file.
>Tnx, regards
>
>
>--
>Fernando M. Maresca
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