converting from Sybase to Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Peter Koczan
Subject converting from Sybase to Postgres
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Msg-id 4544e0330703191703v374bfa72ma75e146096e68c4f@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: converting from Sybase to Postgres  (Cesar Alvarez <c.alvarezx66@gmail.com>)
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Hi everyone,

I'm looking to convert a lot of data from Sybase to Postgres. As this will be a painful process, I was wondering if there are any utilities and programs to ease the conversion process. Specifically, I'm looking for help in 3 areas.

1. Recreation of the schema, especially converting triggers, data types, and functions.
2. Converting SQL scripts and cron jobs where there are incompatibilities (e.g. sybase : isnull(...) :: postgres : coalesce(...) ).
3. There is an ancient GUI that we use to interface to sybase (it's based on APT, I believe). The nice thing is it can run external commands, and interfaces somewhat nicely with Kerberos. Is there any piece of middleware (preferably GUI-based, though web-based may do) for postgres that can do this?

Of course I can spend hours tracking down cron jobs, apps, and scripts, painstakingly recreating triggers and functions, and write my own GTK-based GUI, but if there's anything that can help me, please let me know.

Peter

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