Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, 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: 2004-04-17 13:46:12
Message-ID: 40813524.6030307@Yahoo.com
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> ... 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!

... and contribute it to MySQL :-)

Jan

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