Re: newbie - postgresql or mysql

 >>mysqldump --extended-insert=FALSE<<

Thanks for the help, this is allowing me to import the data now.

Regards,

Frank

At 09:37 AM 9/1/2005, Michael Fuhr wrote:
>[Please copy the mailing list on replies so others can contribute
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>On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:49:57PM -0600, aly.dharshi@telus.net wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:17:29PM -0400, Frank wrote:
> > >>>>insert  into category values
> > >>>>(4, 'Hardware - Monitor', 2, '2004-10-12 10:50:01'),
> > >>>>(5, 'Hardware - Printer', 2, '2004-10-12 10:50:02'),
> > >>>>(6, 'Hardware - Terminal', 2, '2004-10-12 10:50:02'),
> > >
> > >PostgreSQL doesn't support this form of INSERT; you'll have to use
> > >a separate INSERT per record or use COPY.  Another method, although
> > >probably not useful in this case, is to insert records from a subquery;
> > >see the INSERT documentation for more information.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be simpler to do a dblink, and just get the data from MySQL
> > and drop it into PostgreSQL ? Or is this too complicated ?
>
>dblink (at least the one distributed as contrib/dblink) is for
>making connections to other PostgreSQL databases.  You could,
>however, use DBI-Link or something similar to make connections to
>MySQL or another data source; in that case you could use the subquery
>form of INSERT:
>
>INSERT INTO tablename (columnlist) SELECT columnlist FROM ... ;
>
>However, if you're just doing a one-time import of data from MySQL,
>then it might be simplest to dump the data with separate INSERT
>statements (mysqldump --extended-insert=FALSE).
>
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>Michael Fuhr
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