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Migrating to PostgreSQL, the White Paper

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

After having been involved in many migration projects in the last 10 years, I decided to publish the following White Paper in order to share my learnings.

The paper is titled Migrating to PostgreSQL, Tools and Methodology and proposed the Continuous Migration approach. Get the book now:

Continuous Migration makes it easy to make incremental progress over a period of time, and also to pause and resume the migration work later on, should you need to do that. The method is pretty simple — just follow those steps:

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Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

pgloader loads data into PostgreSQL. It knows how to load data from several kinds of source:

Files
Live Databases

Let’s dive into those two different behaviours of pgloader, starting with its support for migrating a whole database from a connection string.

Loading data from Files

You might have to process huge CSV files from time to time. For example if you’re in the telco business, those might be Call Detail Records. When using PostgreSQL the best way to load CSV files is the COPY command and protocol, as read in the article entitled Faster bulk loading in Postgres with copy from Craig Kerstiens.

Continuous Migration

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

After having been involved in many migration projects over the last 10 years, I decided to publish the following White Paper in order to share my learnings.

The paper is titled Migrating to PostgreSQL, Tools and Methodology and details the Continuous Migration approach. It describes how to migrate from another relational database server technology to PostgreSQL. The reasons to do so are many, and first among them is often the licensing model.

pgloader, Your Migration Companion

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017

PGConf.EU is a unique chance for European PostgreSQL users and developers to catch up, learn, build relationships, get to know each other and consolidate a real network of professionals that use and work with PostgreSQL.

pgloader, your migration companion

Migrating data from another RDBMS to PostgreSQL should be really easy. After all it’s all relations and tables and the same data types everywhere or abouts, with text, dates and numbers. Well it’s actually quite messy and complex to migrate the data properly from one system to another. pgloader solves this problem and turns it into a one-liner: in this talk you’ll learn how to benefit from that, and the classic pitfalls to avoid.

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