# PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017

DevFeed: [PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/postgresql-conference-europe-2017-34654.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/conf/postgresql-conference-europe-2017/>)

Published: 2017-10-30T09:30:22Z

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>), [rdbms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rdbms.md>)

Tags: [2017](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2017.md>), [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [europe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/europe.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [pitfalls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pitfalls.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [rdbms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rdbms.md>)

## AI overview

This conference talk describes pgloader as a tool for migrating data from another RDBMS to PostgreSQL. It explains that migrations can be complex and presents pgloader as a way to simplify the process while addressing common pitfalls.

## Source excerpt

pgloader, your migration companion Migrating data from another RDBMS to PostgreSQL should be really easy. After all it's all relations and tables and the same data types everywhere or abouts, with text, dates and numbers. Well it's actually quite messy and complex to migrate the data properly from one system to another. pgloader solves this problem and turns it into a one-liner: in this talk you'll learn how to benefit from that, and the classic pitfalls to avoid.