Re: FW: Dbf to Pg converter - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul M Foster
Subject Re: FW: Dbf to Pg converter
Date
Msg-id 20010219233248.B12712@quillandmouse.com
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In response to Re: FW: Dbf to Pg converter  ("Len Morgan" <len-morgan@crcom.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:03:37PM -0600, Len Morgan wrote:

> Was there something wrong with dbf2sql?  :-)  It used to be in contribs/ I
> think but it was very simple code that did the job.  At the time I was
> working with 1.x and 6.0x versions of Postgres and made a few mods to it so
> that I could rename the tables, change field types, just export the data and
> not the table definitions, etc.
>
> The last version I saw was 3.0 but that's been a couple of years.
>
> len morgan
>

I used this originally, but then found some shortcomings whose nature I
don't recall. I believe it had odd rules for type conversions between
xBase and PostgreSQL, maybe. I had already written code to "browse"
xbase tables (dbfdump), so I just grafted SQL scripting onto it.

But by all means, if dbf2sql works, use it.

Paul


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