****RE: OT: Converting Data From PostGreSQL to MySQL

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 18:19 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 05:52:58PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 15:27 -0700, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> > > I am not that familiar with PostGreSQL and made a mistake in selecting it
> > > for this application.
> > ----
> 
> <snippage>
> 
> > I am confused by your statement that you made a mistake in selecting
> > PostgreSQL since I have found it to be versatile, fast and completely
> > reliable and those whom I know and trust to know these things would
> > heavily fall on the side of PostgreSQL over MySQL.
> 
> I think it's fairly clear why he feels he made a mistake choosing MySQL
> (see selected quote above): s/and/therefore/
> 
> I do agree with you completely regarding the merits of PostgreSQL. It's
> more solid and more complete.
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just a follow up - this was just covered on the rubyonrails mail list

http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-August/058821.html

is the middle of the thread which suggests how easy this could be using
Rails and the next message in the thread covers it as well.

Craig