Re: transfer data from oracle to postgres

From: "Graeme Merrall" <gbmerrall(at)aol(dot)com>
To: "m" <smarie(at)ekno(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: transfer data from oracle to postgres
Date: 2002-06-28 04:34:23
Message-ID: NNEKJJAGMOPDHMDJNLBJKEBOCCAA.GBMerrall@aol.com
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> Is there an easy way to transfer DATA from an oracle database to a
> postgres database (tables are already created)? As far as I can tell
> the oracle export creates a binary file. I could write a script, but
> it would be a bit tedious. I imagine it has already been done?
>
> I searched the archives and docs and the web, but the archives are
> coming up quite right on my browser and I didn't find any good
> suggestions.

There's a ora2pg script in the postgres contrib directory which you can use.
A more updated versionis available from http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ora2pg/.
It's pretty good but it does not do CLOB/BLOB data and it doesn't see
synonyms either.

Cheers,
Graeme

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