It seems faster, but we've made no performance tests at all.
We moved fo the sake of simplicity (keeping just one RDBMS to maintain).

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Bogdan Iosif <[email protected]> wrote:
> An interesting and ingenious method. I was thinking you're using some ETL
> tool.
>
> I'm strongly considering doing the same switch as you did but I'm wary of
> performance issues. Initially, I tried running OTRS on top of SQL Server but
> Perl's database interface implementation for this RDBMS is very weak (5x
> slower) compared to MySQL.
>
> Did you run tests that showed PostgreSQL would be better performance-wise
> or, if not, why did you move?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:55 PM, aledr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Used mysqldump for data only;
>> Added 'set backslash_quote = on;' and 'set standard_conforming_strings
>> = off;' in the header of the dump file.
>> After that you need to create the PostgreSQL schema from OTRS scripts,
>> import your data, run OTRS post database script and adjust sequences
>> (you can generate the queries for that with py-mysql2pgsql and some
>> scripting).
>>
>> Solved the article_attachment with otrs.ArticleStorageSwitch.pl.
>> Dropped files to filesystem, moved files to the new server and
>> imported to database again.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Bogdan Iosif <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Does OTRS have a tool that you used to move the data?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:12 PM, aledr <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Good day!
>> >>
>> >> I'm moving my otrs installation from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
>> >> Almost everything went fine, except article_attachment table.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any available instructions on how to move that data?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
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