Over the fifo and Through psql to PostgreSQL We Go: Migrating from Sybase to Postgres

Check out http://www.pgconf.us/2015/event/101/ for the full talk details. A journey from Sybase to PostgreSQL--a process of working around Sybase's quirks and peculiarities with a few detours and dead ends along the way, to eventual success. Shell and python scripts available. About the Speaker As a card carrying member of the Professional Organization of English Majors, my own journey includes too many years behind the wheel of a semi to being the entire IT department for a non-profit in Wyoming and Montana to DBA at Command Prompt. I'm an avid amateur astronomer, bee keeper and into my 40th year of keeping and using a sourdough starter.