Re: Migrate from mysql

On 09/09/2013 03:15 PM, Florent THOMAS wrote:
> Hy folks,
>
> I'm trying to migrate a database running on mysql for the famous
> www.redmine.org from mysql to postgresql.
> I was looking for ressources and I found this :
> http://www.olimpiks.ru/2011/03/redmine-mysqlpostgresql-converter.html
> The process is almost perfect except for the binary datas.

What version of Postgres?

> I have this kind of messages :
>
> /psql:redmine_postgres.sql:155714: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type
> bytea
> LIGNE 1 : ...TO "wiki_content_versions" VALUES (561,108,108,24,E'h1. Proc...
> ^
> psql:redmine_postgres.sql:155728: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea
> LIGNE 1 : ...TO "wiki_content_versions" VALUES (575,113,113,24,E'h1. Open...

The escape format for bytea changed, see here for more information:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/datatype-binary.html

> /
> And other like this :
> /psql:redmine_postgres.sql:156648: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8": 0xda 0x75
> psql:redmine_postgres.sql:156649: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8": 0xda 0xcb
> psql:redmine_postgres.sql:156650: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8": 0xda 0x2d
> psql:redmine_postgres.sql:156651: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8": 0xef 0x6e 0xdb
> /

Encoding mismatch. What is the encoding for your source data?

> Does anyone already manage some migration and have some kind of issue on
> bytearray?
>
> Thanks for helping,
>
> regards

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