Re: replicating postgresql database to ms-sql database

Mary,

I believe that you can use FreeTDS with dblink to set up your
on replication process. I agree with you that having both databases
be PostgreSQL would be preferrable.

Ken

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:48:48AM -0700, Mary Anderson wrote:
> Hi list,
> I have been asked if it is possible to asynchronously replicate a
> postgresql database to ms-sql. My answer is yes, provided postgresql
> ORM features aren't used in the design of the database. One does an
> ascii dump of the tables and then bulk loads them into MSSQL. The
> database in question will be about 10G. Is there a sane way to do this?
> I am hoping the slony can be instructed to produce an ascii transaction
> log which can then be massaged and applied to the MS-SQL database.
> (This is a database of population statistics which is relatively static.
> It will be read only on the ms-sql node)
>
> I think it is much better to have both databases running postgres,
> by the way.
>
> mary anderson
>
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