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This allows creating tables in any target tablespace rather than the default one, and is supported for the various sources having support for the ALTER TABLE clause already.
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Migrating a MS SQL Database to PostgreSQL
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This command instructs pgloader to load data from a MS SQL database.
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Automatic discovery of the schema is supported, including build of the
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indexes, primary and foreign keys constraints.
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Here's an example::
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load database
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from mssql://user@host/dbname
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into postgresql:///dbname
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including only table names like 'GlobalAccount' in schema 'dbo'
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set work_mem to '16MB', maintenance_work_mem to '512 MB'
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before load do $$ drop schema if exists dbo cascade; $$;
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The `mssql` command accepts the following clauses and options.
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MS SQL Database Source Specification: FROM
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Connection string to an existing MS SQL database server that listens and
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welcome external TCP/IP connection. As pgloader currently piggybacks on the
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FreeTDS driver, to change the port of the server please export the `TDSPORT`
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environment variable.
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MS SQL Database Migration Options: WITH
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When loading from a `MS SQL` database, the same options as when loading a
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`MS SQL` database are supported. Please refer to the MS SQL section. The
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following options are added:
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- *create schemas*
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When this option is listed, pgloader creates the same schemas as found
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on the MS SQL instance. This is the default.
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- *create no schemas*
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When this option is listed, pgloader refrains from creating any schemas
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at all, you must then ensure that the target schema do exist.
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MS SQL Database Casting Rules
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-----------------------------
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CAST
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^^^^
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The cast clause allows to specify custom casting rules, either to overload
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the default casting rules or to amend them with special cases.
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Please refer to the MS SQL CAST clause for details.
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MS SQL Views Support
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--------------------
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MS SQL views support allows pgloader to migrate view as if they were base
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tables. This feature then allows for on-the-fly transformation from MS SQL
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to PostgreSQL, as the view definition is used rather than the base data.
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MATERIALIZE VIEWS
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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This clause allows you to implement custom data processing at the data
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source by providing a *view definition* against which pgloader will query
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the data. It's not possible to just allow for plain `SQL` because we want to
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know a lot about the exact data types of each column involved in the query
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output.
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This clause expect a comma separated list of view definitions, each one
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being either the name of an existing view in your database or the following
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expression::
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*name* `AS` `$$` *sql query* `$$`
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The *name* and the *sql query* will be used in a `CREATE VIEW` statement at
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the beginning of the data loading, and the resulting view will then be
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dropped at the end of the data loading.
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MATERIALIZE ALL VIEWS
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Same behaviour as *MATERIALIZE VIEWS* using the dynamic list of views as
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returned by MS SQL rather than asking the user to specify the list.
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MS SQL Partial Migration
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------------------------
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INCLUDING ONLY TABLE NAMES LIKE
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Introduce a comma separated list of table name patterns used to limit the
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tables to migrate to a sublist. More than one such clause may be used, they
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will be accumulated together.
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Example::
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including only table names like 'GlobalAccount' in schema 'dbo'
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EXCLUDING TABLE NAMES LIKE
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Introduce a comma separated list of table name patterns used to exclude
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table names from the migration. This filter only applies to the result of
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the *INCLUDING* filter.
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::
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excluding table names matching 'LocalAccount' in schema 'dbo'
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MS SQL Schema Transformations
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ALTER SCHEMA '...' RENAME TO '...'
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Allows to rename a schema on the flight, so that for instance the tables
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found in the schema 'dbo' in your source database will get migrated into the
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schema 'public' in the target database with this command::
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alter schema 'dbo' rename to 'public'
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ALTER TABLE NAMES MATCHING ... IN SCHEMA '...'
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Introduce a comma separated list of table names or *regular expressions*
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that you want to target in the pgloader *ALTER TABLE* command. Available
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actions are *SET SCHEMA*, *RENAME TO*, and *SET*::
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ALTER TABLE NAMES MATCHING ~/_list$/, 'sales_by_store', ~/sales_by/
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IN SCHEMA 'dbo'
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SET SCHEMA 'mv'
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ALTER TABLE NAMES MATCHING 'film' IN SCHEMA 'dbo' RENAME TO 'films'
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ALTER TABLE NAMES MATCHING ~/./ IN SCHEMA 'dbo' SET (fillfactor='40')
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ALTER TABLE NAMES MATCHING ~/./ IN SCHEMA 'dbo' SET TABLESPACE 'tlbspc'
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You can use as many such rules as you need. The list of tables to be
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migrated is searched in pgloader memory against the *ALTER TABLE* matching
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rules, and for each command pgloader stops at the first matching criteria
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(regexp or string).
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No *ALTER TABLE* command is sent to PostgreSQL, the modification happens at
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the level of the pgloader in-memory representation of your source database
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schema. In case of a name change, the mapping is kept and reused in the
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*foreign key* and *index* support.
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The *SET ()* action takes effect as a *WITH* clause for the `CREATE TABLE`
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command that pgloader will run when it has to create a table.
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The *SET TABLESPACE* action takes effect as a *TABLESPACE* clause for the
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`CREATE TABLE` command that pgloader will run when it has to create a table.
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The matching is done in pgloader itself, with a Common Lisp regular
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expression lib, so doesn't depend on the *LIKE* implementation of MS SQL,
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nor on the lack of support for regular expressions in the engine.
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MS SQL Driver setup and encoding
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--------------------------------
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pgloader is using the `FreeTDS` driver, and internally expects the data to
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be sent in utf-8. To achieve that, you can configure the FreeTDS driver with
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those defaults, in the file `~/.freetds.conf`::
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[global]
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tds version = 7.4
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client charset = UTF-8
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Default MS SQL Casting Rules
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----------------------------
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When migrating from MS SQL the following Casting Rules are provided:
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Numbers::
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type tinyint to smallint
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type float to float using float-to-string
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type real to real using float-to-string
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type double to double precision using float-to-string
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type numeric to numeric using float-to-string
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type decimal to numeric using float-to-string
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type money to numeric using float-to-string
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type smallmoney to numeric using float-to-string
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Texts::
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type char to text drop typemod
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type nchat to text drop typemod
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type varchar to text drop typemod
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type nvarchar to text drop typemod
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type xml to text drop typemod
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Binary::
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type binary to bytea using byte-vector-to-bytea
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type varbinary to bytea using byte-vector-to-bytea
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Date::
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type datetime to timestamptz
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type datetime2 to timestamptz
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Others::
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type bit to boolean
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type hierarchyid to bytea
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type geography to bytea
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type uniqueidentifier to uuid using sql-server-uniqueidentifier-to-uuid
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