Re: transitioning from MS SQL Server to Postgres

From: "Geoffrey J(dot) Gowey" <ggowey(at)rxhope(dot)com>
To: "Andrew G(dot) Hammond" <drew(at)xyzzy(dot)dhs(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: transitioning from MS SQL Server to Postgres
Date: 2001-11-14 16:22:56
Message-ID: 3BF29A60.7090404@rxhope.com
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Just remembered something else: DON'T use the money type on either db
(MS or Pgsql). The odbc driver for pgsql does NOT detect it properly
and causes the migration to fail.

Geoff

Andrew G. Hammond wrote:

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> I know I saw an article recently about transitioning from MS SQL Server to
>Postgres, but I have no idea where. Anyone have any pointers?
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