Migrating a production PostgreSQL database to Spanner is simplified with the Spanner Migration Tool (SMT), with minimal downtime.

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Migrating from PostgreSQL to Spanner can bring benefits like horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and 99.999% availability. This post provides a step-by-step guide for performing a minimal downtime migration using the Spanner Migration Tool (SMT).

Migrate from PostgreSQL to Spanner with minimal downtime

1. Configure source (PostgreSQL) and destination (Spanner) resources