[GENERAL] MSSQL to PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Iv Ray
Hello, what is the current status of the MSSQL to PostgreSQL tools/tips? Google returns results as old as 2001... The MSSQL database in question has only tables, no stored procedures, etc. Thanks, Iv -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL to PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Iv Ray
Hi Ray, I have something that does this. I am currently awaiting project approval on pgfoundry. It does tables, views, and stored procedures. I have tested it on 450,000 lines of mssql code including 400 tables and 3700 stored procedures, although it is a work in progress. I applied last wee

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL to PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Iv Ray
Gwyneth Morrison wrote: Ray, I think we tried that and I think it works but not for us. It may work for you. MS wants to copy all the tables over with exactly the same names including [dbo]. and so on. When it doesn't find an exact match, it wants to create the table. This may be ok for you

[GENERAL] a strange error

2009-05-27 Thread Iv Ray
We are using PostgreSQL for more than 5 years by now and at least the last 2-3 years we experience the following situation. We refresh the live database on the development server using the following shell script - /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql stop rm -r /home/data/postgresql/data /usr/loc

Re: [GENERAL] a strange error, resolved

2009-05-27 Thread Iv Ray
Both explanations sound very similar and very logical indeed. Never occurred to me to think that way. Actually, now I remembered, that in a few rare occasions we had to restart the whole server after the "refresh" and then there was no problem, at all. Thank you both! Iv. -- Sent via pgsql-