7 May 2021 Five tips for a smooth migration to PostgreSQL Jan Karremans, director of sales engineering EMEA at EDB, provides five tips for ensuring a successful migration to PostgreSQL Any database migration should be carried out with specific company goals in mind, and shouldn't be rushed into. Leading organisations are always looking to find different solutions for high-performance data replication and secure storage environments. A popular platform is PostgreSQL, an open source database that offers critical maturity and enterprise features for high scalability and availability. Given its ranking as DBMS of the Year 2020, it’s no surprise that a growing number of organisations want to move to Postgres. In addition, during the global pandemic, many companies have had time to review systems that were continuously used before the pandemic (think airline ticketing systems). This assessment of critical systems has sparked a new dimension of migrations, upping the demand for Postgres and pushing towards a more efficient spend of budget to ensure a sharper competitive edge.