Re: Foreign Data Wrapper from Oracle to Postgres 16

Hi,

We found a link that may help resolve the issue you encountered while creating the oracle_fdw extension on windows machine.

laurenz/oracle_fdw: PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper for Oracle<https://github.com/laurenz/oracle_fdw?tab=readme-ov-file#6-installation>
[https://opengraph.githubassets.com/5ddf3cfa010c4132953bb148ce5b719f099b54771a4898555db8946528da016a/laurenz/oracle_fdw]<https://github.com/laurenz/oracle_fdw?tab=readme-ov-file#6-installation>
GitHub - laurenz/oracle_fdw: PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper for Oracle<https://github.com/laurenz/oracle_fdw?tab=readme-ov-file#6-installation>
PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper for Oracle. Contribute to laurenz/oracle_fdw development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

Thanks

Dinesh Nair

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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 12:20 PM
To: Santhosh S <sansel25041991(at)gmail(dot)com>; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>; pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Foreign Data Wrapper from Oracle to Postgres 16

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On Wed, 2025-07-02 at 23:58 +0530, Santhosh S wrote:
> I am working on a project along with my peers on developing an Foreign Data Wrapper
> to transfer data from Oracle to Postgres 16. We followed the below steps in order:
>
> 1. Developed the Foreign Data Wrapper (64-bit) using Microsoft Visual Studio to transfer from Oracle to Postgres 16
> 2. Installed Oracle Instant Client 64-bit versionand InstantClient Path has been set in the environment variables
> 3. Have Postgres 16 64-bit version installed
> 4. Placed all the files from each folder of the downloaded ORACLE_FDW package should
> be copied into the respective folders of PostgreSQL Installation directory
> 5. “oci.dll” from the Oracle Instant Client Installation directory to PostgreSQL Installation directory
> 6. Visual C++ redistributable is installed
>
> After the above steps when we try to execute the below statement in Postgres 16
>
> CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS oracle_fdw
> SCHEMA public
> VERSION "1.2"
>
> we get the error "SQL Error [58P01]: ERROR: could not load library "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/16/lib/oracle_fdw.dll": The specified module could not be found.
> Error position"
>
> But we are able to execute the above command successfully in Postgres 13 and successfully transfer data from Oracle to Postgres 13.
>
> Any help or direction would be greatly helpful.

This is better tracked here: https://ind01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flaurenz%2Foracle_fdw%2Fissues%2F754&data=05%7C02%7Cdinesh_nair%40iitmpravartak.net%7C0b83211e99d44b76a1ce08ddba4ddf83%7C3e964837c2384683915549f4ec04f8e9%7C0%7C0%7C638871565825604004%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hwVQ5nQaRomTkOBz49RpAW4k8YA1gbmANAXRRZrFCe8%3D&reserved=0<https://github.com/laurenz/oracle_fdw/issues/754>

By the way, I took a double take when I read your report.
For me "developing" a FDW means writing the code, whereas you are clearly
talking about what I would call "building", "compiling" or "instaling"
the FDW. No problem, I just want to avoid confusion.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe