RE : Oracle to PostgreSQL

hi,

At 10:25 07.08.2003 +0200, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote:
>"Marco Roda" <MarcoRoda@amdosoft.com> wrote ..
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to port data from an Oracle 8.0 base to PostgreSQL 7.2. I have
> > scripts to create the base on Oracle and PostgreSQL (it is about 40
> > tables), but I need to port a great amount of data to PostgreSQL.
> > Can anybody help me?
>
>I never see any documents about migrating from Oracle8 to PostgreSQL,
>but I've already done this kind of migration, here's my warrior's way :
>
>- Make a SQL dump of the tables (structure + constraints + sequences +
>data), and try to add this dump file into a PostgreSQL database (via
>psql). You will probably need to do  several search and replaces in the
>SQL code in order to get it PostgreSQL compliant. But as PostgreSQL try
>to follow the SQL norm, it shouldn't be very difficult.

I have good experiences with:

http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ora2pg/ora2pg.html


Rafal