In article <epvm6a$9ee$1@sea.gmane.org>,
"Jim C." <jlistnews@gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. I wouldn't know. I'm merely the
> unfortunate soul chosen to convert this from MySQL to Postgres. :-/
> I've been working on it for a week now. I've got to say that it pains me
> to know that there is apparently no open standard in use for
> importing/exporting data from one db to another.
Regarding just the data, you could use "mysqldump --tab=DIR" on the
MySQL side and "COPY FROM" on the PostgreSQL side.
> XML would do the job, wouldn't it?
If you have a problem and try to solve it with XML, then you have two problems.