# Migrating to PostgreSQL, the White Paper

DevFeed: [Migrating to PostgreSQL, the White Paper](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/migrating-to-postgresql-the-white-paper-34580.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2018/01/migrating-to-postgresql-the-white-paper/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2018-01-11T09:01:45Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Database Migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-migration.md>), [rdbms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rdbms.md>)

Tags: [continuous-integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-integration.md>), [database-migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-migration.md>), [migrate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migrate.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [rdbms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rdbms.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces a white paper on migrating from another relational database system to PostgreSQL. It presents Continuous Migration, a methodology involving target PostgreSQL architecture setup, PostgreSQL-based continuous integration, repeated data migration from the production database, and a planned final migration.

## Source excerpt

After having been involved in many migration projects over the last 10 years, I decided to publish the following White Paper in order to share my learnings. The paper is titled Migrating to PostgreSQL, Tools and Methodology and details the Continuous Migration approach. It describes how to migrate from another relational database server technology to PostgreSQL. The reasons to do so are many, and first among them is often the licensing model.