This gem copies data from postgres to redshift. It's especially useful to copy data from postgres to redshift in heroku.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'postgres_to_redshift'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install postgres_to_redshift

Set your source and target databases, as well as your s3 intermediary.

export POSTGRES_TO_REDSHIFT_SOURCE_URI='postgres://username:password@host:port/database-name'
export POSTGRES_TO_REDSHIFT_TARGET_URI='postgres://username:password@host:port/database-name'
export S3_DATABASE_EXPORT_ID='yourid'
export S3_DATABASE_EXPORT_KEY='yourkey'
export S3_DATABASE_EXPORT_BUCKET='some-bucket-to-use'

postgres_to_redshift

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/kitchensurfing/postgres_to_redshift/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request