[rt-users] Postgres to MySQL

[Drew Barnes]

Salensky, Don wrote:

>So does anyone know how to do this or where I could start? I have a SQL dump of the Postgres database, but I'm fairly database-retarded and I don't know where to being. Is there any documentation anywhere that would help me? 
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This may work, but I don't know: 
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/contrib/3.0/Conversion/rt3-on-pg-to-mysql

>Danke schön,
>Don
>dsalensky at servervault.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Salensky, Don
>Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:30 PM
>To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
>Subject: RE: [rt-users] Postgres to MySQL
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>No problem. One of the reasons is because RT seems "designed" for MySQL.
>Also, MySQL seems a little easier to use and we don't really need the additional functionality of Postgres for RT. And, thinking to future releases of RT, we want the upgrades to go as smoothly as possible.
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>Thanks,
>Don Salensky
>dsalensky at servervault.com
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Jay R.
>Ashworth
>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 23:18 PM
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>Subject: Re: [rt-users] Postgres to MySQL
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>On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Salensky, Don wrote:
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>>We currently have RT running on a Postgres database but we're 
>>upgrading to the latest version of RT and we want to switch to MySQL 
>>for various reasons. Does anyone know how to convert the data from a 
>>Postgres database to MySQL database? Google hath given me nothing.
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>Not to start an r-war, but I'm curious why?  Do you mind expanding?
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