From: H. Hall <hhall1001@reedyriver.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database Conversion
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:18:07 -0400
Message-ID: <48C0184F.1090705@reedyriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B852776-95B1-41E2-B6A8-DFA92F7C410F@indiana.edu>
References: <9B852776-95B1-41E2-B6A8-DFA92F7C410F@indiana.edu>
Carol Walter wrote:
> Hello, All,
>
> I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in
> MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to
> PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query that he
> will run that will put the data into postgres. I thought that the
> data would have to be output to a text file and then copied into
> postgres. I don't know MySQL. I've done a conversion from Oracle and
> this is how I did it. Is he correct that he can put the data into a
> postgres database by running a MySQL query? It doesn't sound possible
> to me.
>
> Carol
>
Why don't you crate a schema for him and let him try out his idea.
What's the downside?
The upside is that we all may learn something new.
HH
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H. Hall
ReedyRiver Group LLC
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