Re: Migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL : Datatypes?

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Bill P. <maxarbos(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses so far.
>
> I can get the data in it seems with no problem, but I refuse to believe that
> I need create all the tables manually. Most of the tables will import and
> convert just fine, so oI dont think there is a need to do that.
>
> As for the ETL suggestion. I have been using talend to migrate and transform
> data imports, but the actual migration from mysql to postgres table
> structures are not something I am aware it can do.

Some object-relational-manager libraries (Hibernate, SQLAlchemy, etc.)
could probably be used to automate much of the process.

Sean

> I guess my main question would be is: is there a best practice to migrate
> db/schema tables of mysql to schema tables in postgres without having to
> manually do them one at a time?
> A migration tool like the one provided by enterprisedb would be great, IF it
> allowed me to change or fix errors as they occur instead of the entire
> process exiting.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
> To: Bill P. <maxarbos(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Thu, December 23, 2010 12:50:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] 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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