Re: Migrating database(s) from Sybase ASE 15.7 to PostgreSQL 10.6 on Linux

On 5/3/19 6:56 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We're investigating the migration of our LMS (Library Managment System)
> from Sybase ASE 15.7 to PostgreSQL 10.6. The used database in field have
> around 400 columns, some of them are also containing BLOB (bytea) data.
> The DB size vary upto 20 GByte. The interfaces contain any kind of
> language one could imagine :-) ESQL/C, JDBC, Perl DBD, ...
>
> Re/ the migration of the data itself, are there any use case studies
> which could we keep in mind? We plan to export the tables with our own
> tool which produces CSV with delimiter '|' (and \| if the char | is in
> char columns too) and with hex representation of the BLOB data. This seems
> to fit nicely with PostgreSQL's COPY command.
>
> Any known pitfalls?

Do you have many stored procedures, functions, etc?

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