Re: Migration from other database systems to PostgreSQL

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de]
>>Sent: 24 October 2003 16:34
>>To: Dave Page
>>Cc: jm@poure.com; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
>>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Migration from other database
>>systems to PostgreSQL
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>>Dave Page wrote:
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>>>Hi Jean-Michel,
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>>>There is an item on the todo list to create some more advanced data
>>>management tools for pgAmdin. Andreas & I have discussed
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>>this briefly
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>>>and felt it would be a separate program to pgAdmin (though
>>>packaged/distributed together) along the line of SQL Server's DTS.
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>>>I would like to allow some sort of source and target plugins with a
>>>mapping/scriptable transformation service in between, perhaps using
>>>embedded Python or Perl.
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>>Since we could use wxPython, this is first choice. I feel
>>that we should have the python scripting engine implemented
>>in pgAdmin3 quite soon; I've put in on the TODO list.
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>Currently I'd love to do the same, I'm just having a hard job figuring
>out what to use it for!
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It's not for us, more for folks out there that want to contribute some
fancy stuff.
IMHO we could provide some python objects, representing pgAdmin objects
(pgObject, frmMain) so a plugin could extend the tree seamlessly.

Regards,
Andreas