On Thursday 20 September 2007 18:38, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Collin <adderd@kkmfg.com> wrote:
> > Well, the subject says it pretty well but to elaborate:
> >
> > I have a database from our ERP package that uses btrieve (PervasiveSQL)
> > for it's database engine. I'd like to transition all of the data to
> > PostgreSQL. I've been having trouble finding a suitable program to
> > automatically get all of the data transferred over.
> >
> > I have the proper DDF files and an ODBC link in place to the data.
> > Maestro DataDump (from the Postgresql Data Wizard program) only locks my
> > machine up and it seemed to be the only think I could find that would
> > take an ODBC link to the btrieve data and use it to extract the table
> > defs and data to postgresql. Is there some other utility I could use or
> > am I stuck writing a custom program to do it? I could maybe extract the
> > btrieve data to CSV files but I don't have any easy way of doing that
> > quickly for so many tables (and there are a lot!)
>
> dump to csv would be ideal (you could then use the built in csv import
> through pg via COPY).
>
> barring that you need to roll some scripts or use a tool. There are
> many ways to do this of varying quality, mostly pretty dubious. In
> the microsoft world you have DTS which has an ok migrator.
>
Perhaps odbclink could be of help here?
http://odbclink.projects.postgresql.org/
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Robert Treat
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