PgDBF, Another XBase to PostgreSQL converter

[Kirk Strauser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It'd been a couple of years since I wrote a program to convert some  
random database to PostgreSQL, and it seemed like time to crank out  
another one.  The results, PgDBF, are available under the GPLv3 and  
downloadable from http://honeypot.net/project/pgdbf .

Why yet another program to convert XBase databases in general (and  
FoxPro in particular) to PostgreSQL?  Because the other ones I found  
were incomplete, complex, slow, or not available on Unix-like  
systems.  We needed something that could run hourly to keep our legacy  
database in sync with our new production system, and the program we'd  
been using (XBaseToPg: http://honeypot.net/project/xbasetopg) was a  
hack on another program that was never meant to be abused that way.

Seriously, PgDBF is fast and simple.  I profiled it, optimized,  
profiled, optimized, and profiled again until I couldn't find anything  
else to tweak.  And yet its speed comes primarily through its  
simplicity, so it should be very easy to maintain.

Give it a try.  It runs on everything Unixy that I had available for  
testing (including Linux x86, FreeBSD x86-64, and OS X PPC).  I'm  
pretty pleased with how this turned out.
--
Kirk Strauser