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Expand Up @@ -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 <https://github.com/dimitri/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
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