Re: [GNUe] Looking for a converter

[John Fabiani]

Of course that's what I trying to avoid - writing a program.  So far the 
only issues I have discovered have to do with dates and converting char 
to varchar.  But thanks anyway.
John
Biju Chacko wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:52:45 -0700
> John Fabiani <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > I'm looking for a way to convert the table stru from a DBF  to
> > Postgres (to use with my gnue program).  Does anyone know of an easy
> > way to get this done.  Getting data into the table appears to be easy
> > - but I have to setup the table first. I tired to get pg2dbf working
> > but was unable to compile it for SUSE 9.0.  So I need a little help to
> > ease the pain moving from DBF to postgres.
> >    
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> The best way would be to write a perl/python script to read the dbfs and
> insert the data into pgsql. You could also use the program to do
> whatever data manipulation is necessary, since dbf table structures
> are rarely suited for RDBMS-style querying.
>
> HTH,
>
> Biju
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