The setup this needs is:

- Postgres 9.5
        - with mysql_fdw installed
- database.yml
        - postgres database as default
        - mysql database as "source"

Start console, load the file ("load './convert.rb'") and you should be good to 
go.

> On Feb 5, 2016, at 7:41 , Ryan Felton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Guyren,
> 
> Interesting approach. Could you provide more detail in the setup and 
> execution of this script? 
> 
> It looks like it uses some ActiveRecord database configuration. Is this run 
> within a Rails app? 
> 
> For the destination database (postgresql) is there a connection thats needed 
> or does this output as a sql script? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan Felton
> 816.591.6257
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanfelton <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanfelton>
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Guyren Howe <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I mentioned briefly in the meeting tonight that I'd used the new IMPORT 
> FOREIGN SCHEMA command in Postgres to import a MySQL database with some 
> success.
> 
> The new command makes interacting with another database (MySQL, Oracle, 
> Couch, Mongo, you name it) more or less as if it was just part of the local 
> database.
> 
> Anyway, the script is here:
> 
> <http://relevantlogic.com/2016/02/04/converting-mysql-to-postgresql.html 
> <http://relevantlogic.com/2016/02/04/converting-mysql-to-postgresql.html>>
> 
> If anyone makes use of it, or wants to improve it, please let me know, or 
> post it here.
> 
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