Miran Bozicevic wrote:
The Info Visualization lab here has a policy against using mysql, so I need to convert the data to postgres. Has this been done before with wikipedia dumps?
Try the current XML-format dumps; you can then import them in whatever format you please. :)
I have tried two utilities I found "out there", mysql2pgsql.perl and my2pg.pl, and neither seems to able to convert Wp dumps correctly. Since mediawiki 1.5 will be postgres-enabled, I hope someone has figured out a way to do this already. Am I right?
MediaWiki 1.5 will not work with PostgreSQL, as no one has maintained the PostgreSQL support code. A future version might work again some day, should anyone be interested in supporting it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)