| From: | <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jean-Christophe Boggio <cat(at)thefreecat(dot)org>, Tony Simopoulos <karkalis(at)earthling(dot)net>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re[2]: Importing Data into Postgresql from MS Access |
| Date: | 2000-10-13 01:25:51 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10010122124320.18603-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> I agree with Tony that a separate tool for format conversions would be
> mighty handy. I don't think that trying to load down COPY with more
> features is an appropriate approach --- let it do what it does well,
> namely database backup and restore. But we do need something that can
> handle the layout and data-conversion tasks needed to import data from
> other DBMSes.
How about a PostgreSQL equivalent of something like Oracle's SQL*Loader?
You still have to create control files and do some manual stuff, but it is
a very powerful utility.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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