Migrate PostgreSQL to Redshift

Want to migrate from PostgreSQL to Redshift?

Try Withdata DBCopier, a PostgreSQL to Redshift converter for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Migrate PostgreSQL to Redshift, Easy and Fast.

  • Step by Step, just a few mouse clicks.
  • Create Redshift tables with auto mapping data types. Create Redshift indexes.

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Migrate from PostgreSQL to Redshift

Login to PostgreSQL -> Login to Redshift -> Select tables to migrate -> Migrate from PostgreSQL to Redshift

Choose source PostgreSQL database and logon.

Migrate PostgreSQL to Redshift - Choose PostgreSQL and logon

Choose target Redshift database and logon.

Migrate PostgreSQL to Redshift - Choose Redshift and logon

Click “Wizard – Import All Tables” at task dialog.

migrate from PostgreSQL to Redshift - Task Window

then show the wizard.

1. Open source PostgreSQL.

Switch from PostgreSQL to Redshift - Open source database

2. Set “Import Type”.

Migrate from PostgreSQL to Redshift - list target tables

3. Select Redshift tables to migrate.

Switch from PostgreSQL to Redshift - select tables

4. Migrate from PostgreSQL to Redshift.

Create Redshift tables. Copy PostgreSQL data to Redshift. Create Redshift indexes.

Switch from PostgreSQL to Redshift - migrate

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Type mapping

Value kindin PostgreSQLin Redshift
Long texttextvarchar(max)
Binarybytea(none)
JSONjsonbsuper

Dialect differences

Both PostgreSQL and Redshift are database servers, so the differences below are dialect-level: the same concept is spelled differently on each side.

Propertyin PostgreSQLin Redshift
port54325439
datestimestamp, timestamptz, date, timetimestamp, date
long textTEXTVARCHAR(MAX)
binaryBYTEA—

Command line

SideCommand
PostgreSQLpg_dump or COPY ... TO
RedshiftUNLOAD to S3
Redshift (load)COPY from S3
PostgreSQL (load)COPY ... FROM

No counterpart

  • PostgreSQL values of kind Binary have nowhere to go in Redshift.

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