Re: Why is Postgres so much better than MySQL?

["Ward Vandewege" <user=150@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:13:52AM -0500, David Kramer wrote: 
> I did have a win for MySQL over Postgres last week, though.  We had to 
> move a Postgres databases to (gasp) SQL Server (the government site it's 
> going into is MSFT-only).  I'm used to looking at MySQL dumps, and thye 
> look pretty much like straight SQL (to the extent that schema operations 
> are part of the standard, which is "not much").  But this Postgres dump 
> was a ponderous looking beast with COPY commands and all sorts of things 
> that looked nothing like SQL we could convert to something SQLServer 
> could use. 

Uhm - use pg_dump with the --inserts option ?! 

Thanks, 
Ward. 

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