Re: Postgres SQL Syntax

From: Harald Fuchs <hf1110x(at)protecting(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres SQL Syntax
Date: 2007-02-06 10:01:20
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In article <epvm6a$9ee$1(at)sea(dot)gmane(dot)org>,
"Jim C." <jlistnews(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. I wouldn't know. I'm merely the
> unfortunate soul chosen to convert this from MySQL to Postgres. :-/

> I've been working on it for a week now. I've got to say that it pains me
> to know that there is apparently no open standard in use for
> importing/exporting data from one db to another.

Regarding just the data, you could use "mysqldump --tab=DIR" on the
MySQL side and "COPY FROM" on the PostgreSQL side.

> XML would do the job, wouldn't it?

If you have a problem and try to solve it with XML, then you have two problems.

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