From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
To: Advocacy (PostgreSQL) <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Cc: Advocacy (PostgreSQL) <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:46:49 -0400
Message-ID: <3EF77549.27956.37006501@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030623221849.S5387@hub.org>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0306231138520.24244-100000@css120.ihs.com>
On 23 Jun 2003 at 22:19, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dan Langille wrote:
> >
> > > On 24 Jun 2003 at 1:02, Justin Clift wrote:
> > >
> > > > "PostgreSQL v7.4 released, including enhanced MySQL->PostgreSQL
> > > > migration tools".
> > >
> > > On this very note, I'm attempting to migrate MySQL database to
> > > PostgreSQL right now. I'm getting stuck on data such as this:
> > >
> > > (155,'<HTML>tr -d \"\015\" < dosfile.txt\r\n</HTML>',155)
> > >
> > > Where can I find this migration tool? The one I was using was pgAdmin
> > > II via ODBC.
> >
> > It's in the contrib/mysql directory in the source file. the name of the
> > script is mysql2pgsql. Don't kow how well it will work, as I've never
> > migrated from MySQL to Postgresql myself.
>
> But, if you happen to find problems, let us know so that we can strengthen
> it before v7.4 goes out ... :)
Well, for what it's worth, I only need to convert the data, the
tables will be created by the application.
background: I'm converted an installation of http://www.phorum.org/
from mysql to pg. I'd rather Phorum create the PG tables, and just
copy the data over. So far, the proof-of-concept has gone well.
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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