> > 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 > You could possibly do it in a single operation using MS Access if you have an ODBC connection to each database. If however the dataset is large, I wouldn't recommend it. I have a number of MySQL and PostgreSQL dbs and I either dump sql and then import or use PHP scripts when moving between the two. Nick
