Ora2Pg 24.2 have been released

Hyderabad, India - March 8th, 2024

## Ora2Pg

Version 24.2 of Ora2Pg, a free and reliable tool used to migrate an
Oracle database to PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is
publicly available for download.

This release fix several issues reported since last release and adds some
new features and improvements.

* Allow `DATA_EXPORT_ORDER` to take a filename at value to be able to give a custom table order. The file must contain the ordered list of the tables. One table per line in upper case for Oracle.
* Add progress bar when option `--oracle_speed` is used to avoid waiting for the whole data export ends.
* Add replacement of the `BITAND` function by the & operator.
* Add option -f, --format to set the output format for the reports. It can be html or json. Default to html.
* Add automatic addition of the partition key to the primary key. Prefix all columns with the alias in the query to get data from Oracle.
* Add information about MSSQL masked columns in report build by action `SHOW_COLUMN`.
* Add information about columnstore and compression on MSSQL tables with action `SHOW_TABLE`.
* Add new configuration directive `PARTITION_BY_REFERENCE` to defined how to export Oracle partition by reference. Possible values are `none`, `duplicate` or the number of hash partitions to create.

Value `none` mean no translation and export of partition by reference like before. Value `duplicate` will duplicate the referenced column in the partitioned table and apply the same partitioning from the referenced table to the partitioned table. If the value is a number, the table will be partitioned with the HASH method using the value as the modulo. For example if you set it to 4 it will create 4 HASH partitions. Default valuer is `none` to not export the partitions by reference definition.

For a complete list of change see [https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog](https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog)

Thanks to all contributors, they are all cited in the changelog file. With special thanks to Martin Gerhardy for all the recent pull requests, this is much appreciated to not feel alone in the Ora2Pg code development.

## Links & Credits

I would like to thank all users who submitted patches and users
who reported bugs and feature requests, they are all cited
the ChangeLog file.

Ora2Pg is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is
welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches
using the GitHub tools or directly to ora2pg(at)darold(dot)net(dot)

**Links:**

- Website: [https://www.ora2pg.com/](https://www.ora2pg.com/)
- Download1: [https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/releases](https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/releases)
- Download2: [https://sourceforge.net/projects/ora2pg/](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ora2pg/)
- Development: [https://github.com/darold/ora2pg](https://github.com/darold/ora2pg)
- Changelog: [https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog](https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog)
- Documentation: [https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/README](https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/README)

##About Ora2Pg

Ora2Pg is an easy and reliable tool to migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
It is developed since 2001 and can export most of the Oracle objects into
PostgreSQL compatible code.

Ora2Pg works on any platform and is available under the GPL v3 licence.

Docs, Download & Support at [http://www.ora2pg.com/](http://www.ora2pg.com/)