diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f475c41..d09504b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ notably, it doubles the lengths of VARCHARs due to a unicode size problem we had, places indexes on all foreign keys, and presumes you're using Django for column typing purposes. +For a more general approach have a look at pgloader , +which connects to a running MySQL instance and discovers the schema from the catalogs to +then reproduce it in PostgreSQL with a default set of casting rules (that you can edit). +[pgloader](https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader) supports migrating the schema and the data, +converting data on the fly, and reproducing Not Null constraints, default values, primary +and secondary indexes, foreign keys and comments. + How to use ----------