David Fetter informed me that he has some changes to a document I wrote back in 2005 about migration tips going from MySQL to PostgreSQL. As such I started to revamping the document, moving from DocBook 4.3 to 4.5 in the process. The result will be located at http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/mysql-to-pgsql.html. I hope to have his comments merged in in the remainder of the week. Feel free to send me updates after it got properly updated with David's notes.

One thing I never understood is why MySQL insists on creating a table with 'latin1_swedish_ci' as 'collation'. Now, this does more than just collation, it specifies encoding, collation order, and case sensitivity. That's not the issue, but why, oh why, does it insist on making this the default? What is wrong with actually using UTF-8? I mean, MySQL is only used across the world, which means the geographic spread when it comes to character sets would be served by actually having a default that could handle those languages! A missed chance if you ask me.