Converting from other Databases to PostgreSQL

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Contents

Non-specific

DBase II, III, IV+

DBF Format

FileMaker Pro

IBM DB2

Interbase

Microsoft Access

  • exportSQL - a Microsoft Access module which exports Access Database into MySQL, mSQL and PostgreSQL by Dobrica Pavlinusic. Based on the work of Pedro Freire
  • MDB Tools by Brian Bruns
    • A quick way to dump all tables as tsv or csv files 
for TT in $(mdb-tables file.mdb); do
     mdb-export -Q -d $'\t' -D '%%Y-%%m-%%d %%H:%%M:%%S' file.mdb "$TT" > "${TT}.tsv"
done

for TT in $(mdb-tables file.mdb); do
     mdb-export -D '%%Y-%%m-%%d %%H:%%M:%%S' file.mdb "$TT" > "${TT}.csv"
done

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Documentation

Scripts, programs 

 # To install mysql2psql (under ubuntu 11.10): No need to get from github, just:
 sudo apt-get install ruby gems libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev
 gem install mysql pg mysql2psql
 # To get info about the mysql socket:
 netstat -l | grep mysql
 mysql2psql # creates a .yml templae
 vi mysql2psql.yml # edit the template
 mysql2psql # connects to mysql database and write into postgres database
  • py-mysql2pgsql Python script to convert MySQL database to PostgreSQL compatible file or export directly to a PostgreSQL server
  • my2pg.py MySQL to PostgreSQL database conversion (not the same as above)

Oracle

Progress RDBMS

Converting PostgreSQL Databases to other Databases

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