On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> I agree with Tony that a separate tool for format conversions would be
> mighty handy. I don't think that trying to load down COPY with more
> features is an appropriate approach --- let it do what it does well,
> namely database backup and restore. But we do need something that can
> handle the layout and data-conversion tasks needed to import data from
> other DBMSes.
How about a PostgreSQL equivalent of something like Oracle's SQL*Loader?
You still have to create control files and do some manual stuff, but it is
a very powerful utility.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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