Re: Looking for a converter
Biju Chacko <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:52:45 -0700 John Fabiani <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [email protected] [email protected] Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur