Re: Visual FoxPro (VFP) 9 Migration Strategy to Postgresql on Linux

Hello Leif,

Thank you for your message - we will use your website as a reference. Yes, it was always our plan to learn PostgreSQL as fast as possible - but it never hurts to ask others how they accomplished a similar feat. It's also obvious this is not going to be a quick migration, so we'll get started in phases.

PS. I agree about the old legal message that was automatically appended to all our mail. Silly indeed!

Regards,

Kevin

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From: Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>
To: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Date: 4/14/2012 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Visual FoxPro (VFP) 9 Migration Strategy to Postgresql on Linux

Fredag 13. april 2012 17.41.41 skrev Kevin Salisbury :

The most important step is to get a thorough grip on PostgreSQL, and
understand what it can do for you. With a clear grasp of concepts such as
transactions and foreign key constraints, you'll probably find it far easier to
implement your business logic with a PostgreSQL database than dirty ol'
FoxPro. On the other hand, you're much more on your own wrt the interface.

On a far smaller scale than your project, I migrated my genealogy database
from a commercial FoxPro program to my own homegrown PostgreSQL/PHP
application. You can read about it here:

http://solumslekt.org/forays/

That is a rather silly thing to tell an email list.

regards, Leif
http://code.google.com/p/yggdrasil-genealogy/