Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
Also you should really look into updating your pg install to 8.2.9. It takes only seconds / minutes to do. Release notes: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2-4.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2-5.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Carol Walter
I'm using 8.2.3. I don't know which version of MySQL the faculty member has her database in. I really appreciate all the helpful suggestions. This seems like a very interesting topic. Carol On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Alan Scott wrote: What version of Postgres? We have 8.3 and have been

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:24:34 -0400 Carol Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, All, > > I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in > MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to > PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query th

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Alan Scott
What version of Postgres? We have 8.3 and have been using Migration Studio from Enterprise DB (which is part of the Advanced Server install). Also, with MySQL 5.0 and above they have some conversion tools that do come with the install to assist you. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Carol Walter <[E

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Carol Walter
That's a good idea. I think I'll try that. Carol On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:18 PM, H. Hall wrote: Carol Walter wrote: Hello, All, I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread H. Hall
Carol Walter wrote: Hello, All, I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query that he will run that will put the data into postgres. I thought

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Carol Walter
According to the GA, the database has 1,000,000 rows. I hesitate to pass that along because I don't know what that means. It strikes me as an odd way to talk about a relational database. Normally, a relational database has more than one table, so how is a "database" having a million rows

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Hajek, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hello, All, >> >> I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is >> in MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be >> ported to PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he >> has a quer

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Hajek, Nick
> > Hello, All, > > I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is > in MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be > ported to PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he > has a query that he will run that will put the data into > postgres. I thought tha

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Carol Walter
Well, my database server lives on a Solaris 10 box. I'm running PosgreSQL 8.2.3. The database that is being converted from MySQL is currently on a Windows machine. So far it seems that every solution involves an interim step or two. I think he was alluding to just running a query. Car

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Ben Kim
I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query that he will run that will put the data into postgres. I thought that the data would have to be outp

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Στις Thursday 04 September 2008 16:24:34 ο/η Carol Walter έγραψε: > Hello, All, > > I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in > MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to > PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query that he >

Re: [ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Στις Thursday 04 September 2008 16:24:34 ο/η Carol Walter έγραψε: > Hello, All, > > I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in > MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to > PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query that he >

[ADMIN] Database Conversion

2008-09-04 Thread Carol Walter
Hello, All, I have a new faculty member who has a large database that is in MySQL. We don't support MySQL so the database needs to be ported to PostgreSQL. Her GA, who know MySQL, says that he has a query that he will run that will put the data into postgres. I thought that the data wo

Re: [ADMIN] Database conversion type serial question

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Lane
Carol Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I designate a column not > previously defined as serial to serial. "serial" is not really a type. It's just a convenience macro for creating a sequence and setting the column's default expression. So what you do is perform those steps manually. Se

[ADMIN] Database conversion type serial question

2008-03-14 Thread Carol Walter
I'm converting a database developed by a group of students from Oracle to Postgres. There are fields that should be primary keys using sequences. I can get the primary keys designated but when I try to change the type from integer to serial I get an error saying that 'type "serial" does n

Re: [ADMIN] Database conversion

2000-04-16 Thread Chris Carbaugh
Check out the ODBC driver on the PG site. Quite simple really. Just load the driver on your Win Box, and create the DSN. Now all you have to do is open Access, and export your tables via ODBC. I have only done this a few times with rather simple databases, but haven't had any troubles. It cre

Re: [ADMIN] Database conversion

2000-04-16 Thread brad
I have had problems with the pg_dump command, though, when the tables have been wide (many columns with long text items in them) and deep (many rows). The pg_dump utility reloads the data from the stdin, using a pipe. This doesn't work too well (i.e. no data gets loaded) for these tables, but is

Re: [ADMIN] Database conversion

2000-04-16 Thread Max Pyziur
Steve Murphy wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know of any conversion programs that will either convert an > MS Access database file to a Postresql database or from a Filemaker Pro > database file to a Postresql database for the Red Hat Linux OS? > > Any help or educated guesses of where to start

RE: [ADMIN] Database conversion

2000-04-11 Thread Nicolas Huillard
lundi 10 avril 2000 16:23 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: [ADMIN] Database conversion Hi, Does anyone know of any conversion programs that will either convert an MS Access database file to a Postresql database or from a Filemaker Pro database file to a Postresql database for the Red Hat Linux OS?

Re: [ADMIN] Database conversion

2000-04-10 Thread Mini-Me
they i do it those infrequent times i need to is using a program called dbf2sql that will convert from dbf. At 02:22 PM 4/10/00 +, Steve Murphy wrote: >Hi, > >Does anyone know of any conversion programs that will either convert an >MS Access database file to a Postresql database or from a

[ADMIN] Database conversion

2000-04-10 Thread Steve Murphy
Hi, Does anyone know of any conversion programs that will either convert an MS Access database file to a Postresql database or from a Filemaker Pro database file to a Postresql database for the Red Hat Linux OS? Any help or educated guesses of where to start looking would be extremely welcome.