# Planning Your PostgreSQL Migration: Best Practices and Key Considerations

DevFeed: [Planning Your PostgreSQL Migration: Best Practices and Key Considerations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/planning-your-postgresql-migration-best-practices-and-key-considerations-26485.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/planning-your-postgresql-migration/>)

Author: Ken W. Alger

Published: 2024-11-19T19:40:49Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Database Migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-migration.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [vendor lock-in](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vendor-lock-in.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interoperability.md>)

Tags: [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [compatibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compatibility.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [database-migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-migration.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [heroku-postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku-postgres.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interoperability.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>), [vendor-lock-in](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vendor-lock-in.md>)

## AI overview

This guide explains how to plan a PostgreSQL migration between cloud providers. It covers evaluating the current database setup, checking PostgreSQL version and extension compatibility, and documenting configuration settings before migration.

## Source excerpt

Your organization may have many reasons to move a cloud service from one provider to another. Maybe you've found a better performance-versus-cost balance elsewhere. Maybe you're trying to avoid vendor lock-in. Whatever your reasons, the convenience and general interoperability of cloud services today put you in the driver's seat. You get to piece together the [...] The post Planning Your PostgreSQL Migration: Best Practices and Key Considerations appeared first on Heroku.