Re: [GENERAL] Data conversion tools?

2006-11-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:23:23PM -0700, Jim Nasby wrote: Well, for tables it wouldn't be hard to craft a query that spits out the appropriate ALTER TABLE RENAME statements. Unfortunately, ALTER TABLE doesn't support renaming columns, but it might be safe to run an update on the system

Re: [GENERAL] Data conversion tools?

2006-11-16 Thread Jim Nasby
On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Dan Armbrust wrote: I'm trying to convert a database from either MS Access or MySQL into Postgres. I have found a couple of tools that will almost do what I want - but not quite. To make things match up with code that is already written - I need to have all

[GENERAL] Data conversion tools?

2006-11-15 Thread Dan Armbrust
I'm trying to convert a database from either MS Access or MySQL into Postgres. I have found a couple of tools that will almost do what I want - but not quite. To make things match up with code that is already written - I need to have all of the table names and column names converted to lower

Re: [GENERAL] Data conversion tools?

2006-11-15 Thread Adrian Klaver
If you don't mind an intermediate step you could use Pg2xbase http://www.klaban.torun.pl/prog/pg2xbase/ This program takes dbf files and inputs them into Postgres. It has an option for lower casing field names. You can specify the table name when you do the conversion. On Wednesday 15 November