Thread: dbf2pg, visual foxpro and other nonsense
i've been importing older foxpro tables (x-base files) into postgresql with much success using dbf2pg... however, visual foxpro files don't seem to work — i just get an error. does anyone know of any successful means of importing this data directly? our backend application is built in java... are there any good solutions with JDBC?? this is relatively urgent, so if anyone who replies can CC me at this email, i'd be much appreciated. thanks, mike
On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 10:27 AM, Mike McCormac wrote: > i've been importing older foxpro tables (x-base files) into postgresql > with much success using dbf2pg... however, visual foxpro files don't > seem to work — i just get an error. > > does anyone know of any successful means of importing this data > directly? our backend application is built in java... are there any > good solutions with JDBC?? > You can copy the Foxpro tables to text and then copy them into Pg. The problem is, Foxpro likes to make its data "dirty" by surrounding text with quotes, inserting newlines for no reason and things like that, so you may need to write a script or something that strips all that crap out. Have fun. --Jeremy
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 16:27, Mike McCormac wrote: > i've been importing older foxpro tables (x-base files) into postgresql > with much success using dbf2pg... however, visual foxpro files don't > seem to work i just get an error. > > does anyone know of any successful means of importing this data > directly? our backend application is built in java... are there any > good solutions with JDBC?? > > this is relatively urgent, so if anyone who replies can CC me at this > email, i'd be much appreciated. > > thanks, > mike > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org Are You FoxPro programmer ? If Yes, write simple program that reads table by table and generate PostgreSQL CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO expressions. Save the file and execute it with psql. Before about a year i did wrote such conversion program. If you need it, let me know and I'll try to find it.
If you have the Visual Foxpro IDE, you can convert a VFP .dbf to a FoxDOS format using the command COPY TO filename FOX2X, then use dbf2pg on the resulting file. Mike McCormac wrote: > i've been importing older foxpro tables (x-base files) into postgresql > with much success using dbf2pg... however, visual foxpro files don't > seem to work -- i just get an error. > > does anyone know of any successful means of importing this data > directly? our backend application is built in java... are there any > good solutions with JDBC?? > > this is relatively urgent, so if anyone who replies can CC me at this > email, i'd be much appreciated. > > thanks, > mike > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org
I could not find any final solution for converting Visual FoxPro dbf files to postgress. If somebody has a script, or a new version of dbd2pg, which works with this dbf files, please let me know ASAP. I'm running FreeBDS, and found dbf2pg, in databases/postresql81-server/work/contrib I would need a similar tool to runn it in a script from crond, so a "COPY TO filename FOX2X" would not help me too much. Thank you, Marian.
marian beier wrote:
> I could not find any final solution for converting Visual FoxPro dbf
> files to postgress.
> If somebody has a script, or a new version of dbd2pg, which works with
> this dbf files, please let me know ASAP. I'm running FreeBDS, and found
> dbf2pg, in databases/postresql81-server/work/contrib
> I would need a similar tool to runn it in a script from crond, so a
> "COPY TO filename FOX2X" would not help me too much.
> Thank you, Marian.
Use ODBC to connect to Foxpro and link to PostgreSQL :)
Joshua D. Drake
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