Thanks, fixed.
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joe speigle wrote:
> hi,
> just a contrib/mysql/README patch. Somehow the links got reversed.
>
> 5c5
> < http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/mysql2psql/projdisplay.php
> ---
> > http://www.omnistarinc.com/~fonin/downloads.php#my2pg
> 9c9
> < Another tool, mysql2pgsql, can be found at:
> ---
> > A third tool, mysql2pgsql.perl, can be found at:
> 11c11
> < http://www.omnistarinc.com/~fonin/downloads.php#my2pg
> ---
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/mysql2psql/projdisplay.php
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:45:51AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > Hey Joseph, just noticed this in my drafts folder... not sure why it was
> > there, hope it makes sense to you :-)
> >
> > ----
> > OK, I have updated the link on the techdocs site, and after looking at your
> > project statement have a few recommendations for you. The first is that you
> > need to put some mention that your script is a descendant of Dobrica's script
> > just to give props to those who came before but also so people know to use
> > your script over the old one. Second, you need to send a patch to
> > pgsql-patches for the postgresql core server that updates
> > contrib/mysql/README and contrib/mysql/mysql2pgsql.pl to reference your newer
> > script. Since we are technically past feature freeze, you need to include a
> > list of any bugs that were fixed in the old script by the new script.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Robert Treat
> >
> > On Thursday 01 July 2004 17:22, you wrote:
> > > > I don't see the old link you are referring to (and neither did grep); is
> > > > this on the main page of techdocs or someplace else?
> > > >
> > > > Robert Treat
> > >
> > > If the main page is http://techdocs.postgresql.org/
> > > (which may be index.htm or index.php but my browser doesn't show) that is
> > > where the outdated link is.
> > >
> > > This is what I see when I do "view source" on that page:
> > >
> > > <li><a
> > > href="/redir.php?link=http://docman.sourceforge.net/home_html/projects/sql/
> > >mysql2pgsql" target="_blank">mysql2pgsql</a> - A Perl script used to convert
> > > MySQL databases dump to a PostgreSQL-compatible format, by <a
> > > href="/redir.php?link=mailto:dpavlin@rot13.org" target="_blank">Dobrica
> > > Pavlinusic</a></li>
> > >
> > > HISTORY
> > > =======
> > > Dobrica Pavlinusic has a project called docman at sourceforge
> > > In a subdirectory of the project there he put the file mysql2pgsql
> > > That file on sourceforge hasn't been edited since 19-Apr-2001 (dir listing)
> > > The most recent version of the mysql2pgsql script is at
> > > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/mysql2psql/projdisplay.php
> > >
> > > thanks for your reply.
> > >
> > > joesp
> >
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