Add notes about alternate methods

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / maintenance / postgres / mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl

diff --git a/maintenance/postgres/mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl b/maintenance/postgres/mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl
index b37a67d..8a3bb2c 100644 (file)
--- a/maintenance/postgres/mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl
+++ b/maintenance/postgres/mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 ## Convert data from a MySQL mediawiki database into a Postgres mediawiki database
 ## svn: $Id$
 
+## NOTE: It is probably easier to dump your wiki using maintenance/dumpBackup.php
+## and then import it with maintenance/importDump.php
+
+## If having UTF-8 problems, there are reports that adding --compatible=postgresql
+## may help.
+
+
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Data::Dumper;