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Convert XBase / FoxPro databases to PostgreSQL

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-02-11 · latest 2026-09-22

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  1. …backend. It wasn't pretty, but it worked great and helped us get off that ancient stack. [0] https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf
    comment by kstrauser · 2026-09-22 · in Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
  2. My Internet claim to fame was writing a program to get people off of FoxPro to PostgreSQL: https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf FoxPro was nifty in many ways, but nightmarish outside the “single person running the app with the database on…
    comment by kstrauser · 2022-09-03 · in The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (1986)
  3. …was the custom at the time -- I finally said "screw this, let's brute force it." That turned into https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf , which is an app to convert a VFP table into a PostgreSQL table. We had it running on a cron job, which…
    comment by kstrauser · 2021-08-10 · in Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs
  4. …my most popular open source release was a project to help people migrate from FoxPro to PostgreSQL: https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf FoxPro was cool for desktop apps, but couldn’t make the leap to networked clients, where “networked” was…
    comment by kstrauser · 2021-02-11 · in Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)