From 3cf672263631bd910d51f9d22aaeb88d71ba0779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dim Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:50:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] HISTORY review, per hints from Christopher Kings-Lynne --- pgloader.1.txt | 20 +++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/pgloader.1.txt b/pgloader.1.txt index 8b6047a..925adbd 100644 --- a/pgloader.1.txt +++ b/pgloader.1.txt @@ -620,23 +620,29 @@ a unit test of +pgloader+. == 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 .