Re: Looking for a converter

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 <[email protected]> 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.
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>HTH,
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>Biju
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