Re: Migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL : Datatypes?

Bill P. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What would be the best way to deal with migrating a database structure
> and data from a mysql db to postgres when there are dataypes in the
> mysql tables that are not present, and thus throw errors using the
> current migration wizard, in postgres?
>
> If i leave these few tables out on first import, many of the other
> tables that these few key back to dont get created either.
>
> I found a program called easyfrom, but it's over $200 and only runs on
> windows. Navicat, which i have, doesnt seem to have any provision to
> change the datatypes on structure sync from one to the other types of db.
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
> thanks.
>
>
I don't know how complex your schema is, but I would create the objects
manually and then use Perl scripts to copy the data. Copying shouldn't
be a problem because MySQL supports things like this:

SELECT *
INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/emp.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM emp

That should be picked up quite nicely by the COPY command from PostgreSQL.

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