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> Can anyone tell me where I can find documention on how to use mysql2pgsql? > I downloaded the software conversion utility from www.pgsql.com. Create a dump file from mysql, then give that file to mysql2pgsql (use the --help option to see other possible parameters). Write the output to a file: mysql2pgsql --verbose dumpfile > pgsql.dump The output file will work as-is or with some modifications to give you something you can pipe to psql: psql -e yourdb < pgsql.dump Good luck! - Thomas
Hello Peter, Here is a complete procedure for converting from MySQL to PGSQL. You need to use two scripts a)my2pg.pl b)mysql2pgsql.pl ------------------PROCEDURE-------------------------- 1) Take the dump of the schema only mysqldump -d <YOURDBNAME> > /tmp/Tables.sql -p; 2) Convert this sql file into pgsql file using my2pg.pl perl my2pg.pl Tables.sql > TablesPg.sql 3) Take the dump of data mysqldump -c -t <YOURDBNAME> > /tmp/Data.sql -p; 4) Convert this sql file into pgsql file using mysql2pgsql.pl perl mysql2pgsql.pl Data.sql 5) step 4 will create a Data.sql92 file 6) find and replace all occurances of 0000-00-00 with 0001-01-01 using regular expression, if you have date field in your table structures 7) Start dumping to Postgres 8) create a database <YOURDBNAME> using createdb <YOURDBNAME> 9) Enter ACTBilling using psql <YOURDBNAME> --username=postgres 10) At the <YOURDBNAME> prompt type \i TablesPg.sql 11) All the tables will be successfully created. 12) Next use this command to port the data \i Data.sql92 13) All the data would be successfully ported. ---------------------END OF PROCEDURE--------------------- Hope it is of use to you. -- Best regards, Gurudutt mailto:guru@indvalley.com Life is not fair - get used to it. Bill Gates Thursday, December 20, 2001, 9:30:27 PM, you wrote: PEC> Hey All, PEC> Can anyone tell me where I can find documention on how to use mysql2pgsql? PEC> I downloaded the software conversion utility from www.pgsql.com. PEC> Thanks. PEC> Peter PEC> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- PEC> TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? PEC> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
Hello everyone. I apologize ahead of time for the length of this email, I wanted to provide enough detailed information to show exactly what was going on with my problem. I'm using fti.so, a full text indexing procedure from the /contrib directory of the postgresql source tree. For the most part it works wonderfully.. except that I appear to be having problems when I have multiple triggers on the same table calling fti. ------------------------------------------------------------------ CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_lastname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, lastname); CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_firstname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname); CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_screenname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, screenname); ------------------------------------------------------------------- For my tests the values in the db initially are: firstname: Brian lastname: Knox screenname: brianknox1 Okay... so I check to see if "Brian" has been indexed in my fti table, which it has: select * from fti where string ~* 'Brian'; row_id | string | id --------+------------+-------- 18 | brianknox1 | 472111 22 | brian | 472111 I update the firstname and set it to Frodo: orb2=# update person set firstname = 'Frodo' where firstname = 'Brian'; UPDATE 1 Now, I look, and 'Brian' is no longer in the fti table, but neither is 'Frodo' orb2=# select * from fti where string ~* 'Frodo'; row_id | string | id --------+--------+---- (0 rows) orb2=# select * from fti where string ~* 'Brian'; row_id | string | id --------+--------+---- (0 rows) Now, watch this: if I update the field that the *first* trigger is on (lastname), then everything works fine: orb2=# update person set lastname = 'Baggins' where lastname = 'Knox'; UPDATE 1 orb2=# select * from fti where string ~* 'Baggins'; row_id | string | id --------+---------+-------- 2138 | baggins | 472111 (1 row) Now, I can verify that it is indeed the order that matters, and that only the first trigger works, by recreating the triggers in a new order: Now, the firstname trigger is first in order: CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_firstname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname); CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_lastname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, lastname); CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_screenname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, screenname); orb2=# select * from fti where string ~* 'Brian'; row_id | string | id --------+------------+-------- 18 | brianknox1 | 478636 22 | brian | 478636 orb2=# update person set firstname = 'Frodo' where firstname = 'Brian'; UPDATE 1 orb2=# select * from fti where string ~* 'Frodo'; row_id | string | id --------+--------+-------- 2110 | frodo | 485133 orb2=# select * from fti where string ~* 'Brian'; row_id | string | id --------+--------+---- (0 rows) ========================================================================== NOTE: I notice that even when I update the first field that is run through the fti() routine and it updates successfully, that the last two fields are deleted from the fti search table. Here is the information from the FTI table before and after and update: orb2=# select oid from person where firstname = 'Brian'; oid -------- 498130 orb2=# select * from fti where id = '498130'; row_id | string | id --------+------------+-------- 1 | et | 498130 2 | net | 498130 3 | ol | 498130 4 | aol | 498130 5 | se | 498130 6 | tse | 498130 7 | otse | 498130 8 | aotse | 498130 9 | laotse | 498130 10 | x1 | 498130 11 | ox1 | 498130 12 | nox1 | 498130 13 | knox1 | 498130 14 | nknox1 | 498130 15 | anknox1 | 498130 16 | ianknox1 | 498130 17 | rianknox1 | 498130 18 | brianknox1 | 498130 19 | ox | 498130 20 | nox | 498130 21 | knox | 498130 22 | an | 498130 23 | ian | 498130 24 | rian | 498130 25 | brian | 498130 (25 rows) orb2=# update person set firstname = 'Frodo' where firstname = 'Brian'; UPDATE 1 orb2=# select * from fti where id = '498130'; row_id | string | id --------+--------+-------- 2107 | do | 498130 2108 | odo | 498130 2109 | rodo | 498130 2110 | frodo | 498130 (4 rows) Notice that the other two fields, which were indexed in the fti table (lastname, and screenname) are gone. Anyone have any idea what might be going on? Is there anyone on the list that is very familiar with the fti.so module, or who can spot something obviously wrong in the way I'm using my triggers? I'm completely stumped. Brian Knox laotse@lumberjack.snurgle.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Knox Just Another Perl Hacker perl -le '$_="6110>374086;2064208213:90<307;55";tr[0->][ LEOR!AUBGNSTY];print'
laotse@lumberjack.snurgle.org writes: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ CREATE > TRIGGER fti_employee_lastname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person > FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, lastname); > CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_firstname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON > person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname); > CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_screenname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON > person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, screenname); This will not work because there's no guarantee about the order of the execution of the triggers. I haven't worked with fti much, but it's obvious that it expects you to have only *one* trigger relating a given indextable to the master --- on update, the trigger deletes all existing indextable rows for that master row. It looks like the intended way to index multiple columns using a single indextable is CREATE TRIGGER fti_person AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname, lastname, screenname); Or you could use a separate indextable for each column, but that might not be what you want. regards, tom lane
I'll try passing multiple column names and see how that does. If that does not work, I could write a plpgsql function that gets called first with all the arguments and then calls fti multiple times, once for each keyword, I suppose. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Knox Just Another Perl Hacker perl -le '$_="6110>374086;2064208213:90<307;55";tr[0->][ LEOR!AUBGNSTY];print' On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > laotse@lumberjack.snurgle.org writes: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ CREATE > > TRIGGER fti_employee_lastname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person > > FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, lastname); > > > CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_firstname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON > > person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname); > > > CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_screenname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON > > person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, screenname); > > This will not work because there's no guarantee about the order of the > execution of the triggers. I haven't worked with fti much, but it's > obvious that it expects you to have only *one* trigger relating a given > indextable to the master --- on update, the trigger deletes all existing > indextable rows for that master row. > > It looks like the intended way to index multiple columns using a single > indextable is > > CREATE TRIGGER fti_person AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person > FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname, lastname, screenname); > > Or you could use a separate indextable for each column, but that might > not be what you want. > > regards, tom lane >
If you need them to go in a specific order why not call one trigger and have it call other functions not triggers and then you would get the desired result Darren Darren Ferguson Software Engineer Openband On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > laotse@lumberjack.snurgle.org writes: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ CREATE > > TRIGGER fti_employee_lastname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person > > FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, lastname); > > > CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_firstname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON > > person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname); > > > CREATE TRIGGER fti_employee_screenname AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON > > person FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, screenname); > > This will not work because there's no guarantee about the order of the > execution of the triggers. I haven't worked with fti much, but it's > obvious that it expects you to have only *one* trigger relating a given > indextable to the master --- on update, the trigger deletes all existing > indextable rows for that master row. > > It looks like the intended way to index multiple columns using a single > indextable is > > CREATE TRIGGER fti_person AFTER UPDATE OR INSERT OR DELETE ON person > FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fti(fti, firstname, lastname, screenname); > > Or you could use a separate indextable for each column, but that might > not be what you want. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster >