I currently have a site which uses a MySQL 4.x schema, the site uses PHP for the backend. I’m currently in Django-land and I like Postgres so far ( meaning I’m a noob to both ).
What would be the easiest way to go about importing the data in my tables ( the dump file for the entire DB is around ~200 MB ) into my new project? I currently don’t have anything setup on my new site and I’m about to install postgres on my server.
One thing to note is that currently, the MySQL was incorrectly setup so the data is stored as LATIN1 and I need to convert it to real Cyrillic/UTF-8 using iconv before I do any importing, that was a pain to figure out and this is the next step.
Fixtures is your best bet. Dump data from mysql, then load it into postgres.