As I’ve been mentionning in the past already, I’m currently rewriting pgloader from scratch in Common Lisp. In terms of technical debt that’s akin to declaring bankrupcy, which is both sad news and good news as there’s suddenly new hope of doing it right this time.
About the only time when I will accept to work with MySQL is when you need help to migrate away from it because you decided to move to PostgreSQL instead. And it’s already been too much of a pain really, so after all this time I began consolidating what I know about that topic and am writing a software to help me here. Consider it the MySQL Migration Toolkit.
Another day, another migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL… or at least that’s how it feels sometimes. This time again I’ve been using some quite old scripts to help me do the migration.
This article is about versions 2.x of pgloader, which are not supported anymore. Consider using pgloader version 3.x instead. You won’t need to generate the configuration anymore as pgloader now connects to a live instance of the source database and query its system catalogs for you.
