The world rejoiced as ignacio.colmenero@micotan.com ("Ignacio Colmenero") wrote:
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There is no direct analogue to Oracle's SQL*Loader product for
PostgreSQL at this time.
That being said...
1. Plenty of scripting languages are available for Unix platforms,
and they are plenty good at "massaging" data.
2. I recall Jan Wieck having created a Tcl-based "load tool"
prototype about a year ago that had capabilities somewhat resembling
SQL*Loader. (Very "somewhat" :-).) It sort of disappeared, which is
a bit of a shame. It might be possible to convince him to put that up
on GBorg or PGFoundry. It's a tool someone else should take on at
this point in time; the ideas, at least, could help in building such a
tool.
3. Pervasive Software seems to have some Windows-based tools they are
releasing for doing ETL. That might be useful.
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