Обсуждение: MSAccess migration to Postgres through ODBC

Hi all,

I am exporting a MSAccess database to Postgres under windows using ODBC.
An Access table has a column with Currency data type.
When trying to export that table I get a popup message saying the ODBC call failed,
"the input syntax is invalid for type double precision <40868,8227>" .

(it's not a verbatim error message as I am running Spanish windows version)

I have tried to export that same table using mdbtools' mdb-schema program and it works correctly, translating it to postgres "money" data type.

Any ideas on how to fix this? I have not found any related settings on the ODBC driver applet.

Thanks
Albert

albert  wrote:

> I am exporting a MSAccess database to Postgres under windows using
ODBC.

If you haven't already tried there, you might want to try the pgsql-odbc
list.

-Kevin

Thanks Kevin,

I could csv-export the table correctly, so no corruption apparently. I found a registry key called "LocksPerPage" that belongs to MS Office, after increasing it I was able to translate MSAcces Currency type to Integer successfully. Exporting through ODBC right after that was also successful. However that doesn't ring me a bell on how one can automagically export an MSAccess table through postgres odbc when having a column with Currency data type.