One option is to write a Python translator to create CSV files, or even
an uploader to go directly from the Excel files to the database. There
is at least one module to read Excel files, in all their complexity:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.5.2
and a number of Postgres modules:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PostgreSQL
- John Burger
MITRE