Re: Questions about functionality

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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