[Ruby] Converting mysql to postgres

Eric Hodel drbrain at segment7.net
Mon Aug 7 15:29:46 PDT 2006


On Aug 5, 2006, at 1:22 AM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone got any cool tricks for converting a Rails site (in this case,
> a typo installation) from a mysql database to a postgresql database?
>
> I've got it almost working -- I'm doing a SQL dump from mysql and
> loading it into postgres.  However, mysql does booleans as a tinyint
> with 0 = false and 1 = true.  When I try to import that into a
> postgres database that expects booleans to be actual booleans, it
> fails.
>
> Any ideas?

As Ryan mentioned, I wrote this:

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