HISTORY review, per hints from Christopher Kings-Lynne

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== HISTORY ==
+pgloader+ has first been a +tcl+ tool written by Christopher
Kings-Lynne and Jan Wieck, and then maintained by Jean-Paul
Argudo. When it became clear it would be easier to rewrite it in
another language than to properly learn +tcl+ and add to the project
missing options, +pgloader+ was rewritten in python by Dimitri
Fontaine.
+pgloader+ has first been a +tcl+ tool written by Jan Wieck and
released by Christopher Kings-Lynne, who created the
http://pgfoundry.org[pgfoundry] project for it to be published. Later
on, Jean-Paul Argudo took over the maintenance. When it became clear
that it would be easier to rewrite it in another language than to
properly learn +tcl+ and develop some missing options, +pgloader+ was
rewritten in python by Dimitri Fontaine.
+pgloader+ was rewritten to act as an Informix to PostgreSQL migration
helper which imported Informix large objects directly into a
PostgreSQL database.
Then as we got some data we couldn't file tools to care about, we
decided ifx_blob would become +pgloader+, as it had to be able to
decided +ifx_blob+ would become +pgloader+, as it had to be able to
import all Informix +UNLOAD+ data. Those data contains escaped
separator into unquoted data field and multi-lines fields (+\r+ and
+\n+ are not escaped).
+pgloader+ has since gained some more features allowing it to directly
import +mysqldump -T+ data, and is known to be used in production
environments where a +PostgreSQL+ database is used for reporting
against data from several servers running different RDBMS softwares.
== BUGS ==
Please report bugs to Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>.