Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

From: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?
Date: 2004-04-15 11:27:20
Message-ID: 200404150827.20181.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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El Mié 14 Abr 2004 22:22, Christopher Kings-Lynne escribió:
> > ... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar. They really aren't doing
> > any good in /contrib.
> >
> > I've already set up a category "conversion tools" on pgFoundry, and my
> > idea was one project per target system.
>
> I reckon that by far the best way to do a mysql2pgsql converter is to
> just modify mysqldump C source code to output in postgresql format!

I always ran one of the 2 scripts (can't remember which one) and after that
started checking the dump file, because there were things that didn't get
changed correctly[1].

[1]: I always remember the first conversion I did. I found out that MySQL
accepted dates like 30/2/2000 or 0-0-0000.
Very odd.

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