Kaare,
I have a utility which will read Ingres r3 data files directly but I
don't think it would be that reliable to use. I suggest you get one of
the open source database conversion utilities written in Java, they work
pretty well. You can find a few of them on SourceForge/Freshmeat.
Thanks!
-Jonah
Hannu Krosing wrote:
>On K, 2005-05-18 at 12:57 +0200, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>I have a dump from an Ingres database, one file per table it seems. I went
>>looking on www.postgresql.org for documentation for people who want to move
>>to PostgreSQL from other databases, but I couldn't find any such thing.
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>>So, does a convert utility from ingres dump files to PostgreSQL already exist?
>>It's not a big problem for me; I can write a perl program to do the stuff. i
>>just started wondering about it, giving their common ancestry.
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>The common ancestry is form times when Ingres (University Ingres) used
>Quel for its query language, before time when Postgres (without "ql" at
>the end) was created, which used PostQuel up to v4.2 .
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>There are migration scripts for Oracle and MySQL in contrib.
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