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Have a question

From
Michelle Murrain
Date:
Hi Folks,

I've been asked to write a little document for the docs on converting
FileMaker Pro databases into Postgres. I've a question:

Is there a tool out there to convert .dbf files to SQL? I don't know much
about .dbf format - does it include field definitions? If so, is there
documentation out there that people know about on what those definitions look
like, and how they compare to SQL in general (or postgresql in particular)?

TIA,

Michelle
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Re: Have a question

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I've been asked to write a little document for the docs on converting
> FileMaker Pro databases into Postgres. I've a question:
>
> Is there a tool out there to convert .dbf files to SQL? I don't know much
> about .dbf format - does it include field definitions? If so, is there
> documentation out there that people know about on what those definitions look
> like, and how they compare to SQL in general (or postgresql in particular)?

Yes, there is a dbf conversion tool.  Not sure of the name though.

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RE: Have a question

From
"Trewern, Ben"
Date:

There is a debian app called dbf2sql which may do what you need, I think it does specific pg stuff as well :-)

Regards

Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Murrain [mailto:mpm@norwottuck.com]
> Sent: 10 April 2001 01:13
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Have a question
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've been asked to write a little document for the docs on converting
> FileMaker Pro databases into Postgres. I've a question:
>
> Is there a tool out there to convert .dbf files to SQL? I
> don't know much
> about .dbf format - does it include field definitions? If so,
> is there
> documentation out there that people know about on what those
> definitions look
> like, and how they compare to SQL in general (or postgresql
> in particular)?
>
> TIA,
>
> Michelle
> --
> ------------
> Michelle Murrain, Ph.D.
> President
> Norwottuck Technology Resources
> mpm@norwottuck.com
> http://www.norwottuck.com
>
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