Re: Best practice to load a huge table from ORACLE to PG

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Adonias Malosso <malosso@gmail.com> wrote:
> I´d like to know what´s the best practice to LOAD a 70 milion rows, 101
> columns table
> from ORACLE to PGSQL.

The fastest and easiest method would be to dump the data from Oracle
into CSV/delimited format using something like ociuldr
(http://www.anysql.net/en/ociuldr.html) and load it back into PG using
pg_bulkload (which is a helluva lot faster than COPY).  Of course, you
could try other things as well... such as setting up generic
connectivity to PG and inserting the data to a PG table over the
database link.

Similarly, while I hate to see shameless self-plugs in the community,
the *fastest* method you could use is dblink_ora_copy, contained in
EnterpriseDB's PG+ Advanced Server; it uses an optimized OCI
connection to COPY the data directly from Oracle into Postgres, which
also saves you the intermediate step of dumping the data.

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