Archive for 2008/07/26

• Move a Django site to PostgreSQL: check

  When I moved over from Dreamhost to Slicehost, one of the (minor) motivators was the option to use something different than MySQL. Don't get me wrong, though: MySQL is a nice system, fast, relatively memory-efficient and so on. But what drove and still drives me nuts is that not every storage engine within MySQL supports transactions. MyISAM can be as fast as it gets, if it lacks transaction support, I won't use it for at least some of my tables. And having to manually check that every time I write a new app really started to annoy me. But how to move a site like this, that is using Django, from one database system to another (or to be specific, PostgreSQL in this scenario) as simply as possible?

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  • conversion
  • django
  • mysql
  • postgresql

  2008/07/26 at 22:50:26

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