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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:18:07 -0400
From: "H. Hall" <hhall1001@reedyriver.com>
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To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database Conversion
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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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