Re: Oracle to Pg tool

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Where do people want this.  Should it be in /contrib or on its own web
> page?

This is already linked on the related page.

> I have an Xbase conversion utility too.  Where should that go?

What's the URL?

>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As I previous searched a tool to convert Oracle database to PostgreSQL
> > and really found nothing, there's now a piece of perl code I've written
> > that
> > can become a great tool to do this job.
> >
> > It currently extract the database schema table definition of an Oracle
> > database
> > and output a sql script to import into postgresql. You simply provide the
> > DBI
> > connection to the Oracle DB and the script do its best. It normally handle
> > unique, primary and foreign keys.
> >
> > I need help to go further because I really don't know about Oracle and I go
> >
> > very slowly.  Also I did not have so much Oracle database to test with.
> >
> > Things to do are:
> >
> > - Extract grants (coming soon)
> > - More precision in type conversion based on length (I've no good DB to do
> > that)
> > - Extract triggers and internal function.
> > - Extract datas.
> > - SQL queries converter.
> >
> > For extracting data if someone know a way to dump content of an Oracle DB
> > in ascii. I don't found anything than binary dump. Extracting them with
> > perl/DBI
> > can be very slow but if there's no other way...
> >
> > You can found this tools at:
> >
> >     http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ora2pg/
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
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