Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Sim Zacks
I've done similar things with a plpythonu function. Basically, import the mysql module, call your select statement and then for each row do a plpy.execute(insert stmt) Sim On 07/05/2011 12:10 AM, Jonathan Brinkman wrote: Greetings I'd like to INSERT data into my Postgresql 8.4.8 table

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Alban Hertroys
Guys, the OP isn't using MySQL, but MS-SQL. Not that your solutions don't apply in that case, but it's just a little sloppy to be talking about the wrong database all the time ;) On 5 Jul 2011, at 9:37, Sim Zacks wrote: I've done similar things with a plpythonu function. Basically, import

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Brinkman
MySQL for anything. Thanks much for your response! J From: Brent Wood [mailto:b.w...@niwa.co.nz] Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 8:58 PM To: j...@blackskytech.com Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link? Hi Jonathan, I haven't

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Susan Cassidy
From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Brinkman Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 7:48 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: 'Brent Wood' Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link? Thanks I'm importing

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 5 Jul 2011, at 23:27, Susan Cassidy wrote: Thanks I’m importing into Postgresql 8.4.8 from MSSQL 2005. I do not have control over the MSSQL server, it is at a customer’s site. I only have access to read-only views on their server, from which I replicate the data to my postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Brinkman
' Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link? On 5 Jul 2011, at 23:27, Susan Cassidy wrote: Thanks I'm importing into Postgresql 8.4.8 from MSSQL 2005. I do not have control over the MSSQL server, it is at a customer's site. I only have access to read-only views

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:38:25 -0400 Jonathan Brinkman j...@blackskytech.com wrote: I was really hoping to keep the data-replication (between MSSQL -- PG) contained within a PG function. Instead I could write a small shell script or C service to do this using tsql (freetds). I have access to

[GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-04 Thread Jonathan Brinkman
Greetings I'd like to INSERT data into my Postgresql 8.4.8 table directly from an ODBC-linked MS-SQL table or view. I'm looking at using the Cybertec tool ODBC-LINK (http://www.cybertec.at/en/postgresql_products/odbc-link) but I'm wondering if there isn't a way to do this through Postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-04 Thread Brent Wood
Hi Jonathan, I haven't done this from MySQL, but have from Postgres from Oracle From a command line client, extract the data from the source table, so you get a stream of csv style records. Then pipe these directly into a psql statement to load them into the target table. A simple pg2pg