Re: dbf2pg, visual foxpro and other nonsense

From: Darko Prenosil <darko(dot)prenosil(at)finteh(dot)hr>
To: "Mike McCormac" <MikeM(at)jcmh(dot)org>, "pgsql-interfaces" <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: dbf2pg, visual foxpro and other nonsense
Date: 2002-07-12 18:14:32
Message-ID: 200207121714.32991.darko.prenosil@finteh.hr
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On Tuesday 09 July 2002 16:27, Mike McCormac wrote:
> i've been importing older foxpro tables (x-base files) into postgresql
> with much success using dbf2pg... however, visual foxpro files don't
> seem to work — i just get an error.
>
> does anyone know of any successful means of importing this data
> directly? our backend application is built in java... are there any
> good solutions with JDBC??
>
> this is relatively urgent, so if anyone who replies can CC me at this
> email, i'd be much appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> mike
>
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Are You FoxPro programmer ?
If Yes, write simple program that reads table by table and generate PostgreSQL
CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO expressions. Save the file and execute it with
psql. Before about a year i did wrote such conversion program. If you need
it, let me know and I'll try to find it.

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