Re: Remove MySQL Tools from Source? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martin Marques
Subject Re: Remove MySQL Tools from Source?
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Msg-id 200404150827.20181.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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In response to Re: Remove MySQL Tools from Source?  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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El Mié 14 Abr 2004 22:22, Christopher Kings-Lynne escribió:
> > ... 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!

I always ran one of the 2 scripts (can't remember which one) and after that
started checking the dump file, because there were things that didn't get
changed correctly[1].

[1]: I always remember the first conversion I did. I found out that MySQL
accepted dates like 30/2/2000 or 0-0-0000.
Very odd.

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