Data Type Mapping SQL Server → PostgreSQL — What Converts Cleanly and What Breaks
A migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL rarely fails at actually copying the data. It fails at datetime, where the choice between timestamp and timestamptz is anything but cosmetic, at bit, which is not a boolean, and at money, which you’d be better off not touching in PostgreSQL at all. The SQL Server to PostgreSQL data type mapping decides whether the data arrives cleanly — … Read more