Re: Where Can I Find...

lso I don't want to use RPM because I like to control where software is installed. Another piece on information is that I am running on CentOS 5.8.

if you don't want to use RPM, why did you choose an RPM based distribution?



is '6 single sided DVDs' a cute way of saying around 24 GB of data?

there's absolutely NO reason to use a bunch of tablespaces for a database that small.  we use tablespaces for multi-terabyte databases.     Instead, on modern hardware, just put a bunch of small/fast disks in a raid10 and use that for the whole thing.

An Oracle 'instance" is roughly equivalent to a postgres 'database', the instance can have many schemas within it.

For copying the data across, I'd look into ETL packages, such as http://www.jaspersoft.com/JasperSoft_JasperETL.html 

these can connect to different database engines, and 'extract, transform, and load', with a lot of flexibilty.

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