Database Conversion

[Carol Walter <walterc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 would have to be output to a text file and then copied into  
postgres.  I don't know MySQL.  I've done a conversion from Oracle  
and this is how I did it.  Is he correct that he can put the data  
into a postgres database by running a MySQL query?  It doesn't sound  
possible to me.

Carol