Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL
There are a number of guides for this.
MediaWiki-Vagrant Test Environment
This environment was setup.
The git/gerrit user given was anonymous
during setup.sh
.
MediaWiki specific migration
Note that the postgres backend is volunteer supported.
- Official Page
- Specific section, seems out of date
- The perl script seems to proscribe (in its header notes) just spinning up a postgres database and attaching it to a working mediawiki instance then importing a mediawiki backup created with
maintenance/dumpBackup.php
. - "Moving a wiki"
- postgres issues: phabricator.org
MediaWiki Test Environment
This env probably starts with a MySQL database, so it will need reconfigured
Configuring for PostgreSQL
todo...