Re: migrate from PostgreSQL to Oracle

  • From: jo <jose.soares@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Igor Neyman <igor.neyman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:29:19 +0200

Yes Igor,
I don't have any problems with PostgreSQL, I know how to dump a pg database,
my problem is how to upload the pg dump file into Oracle.

j


Igor Neyman wrote:
> Postgres is definitely capable of dumping data into flat (CSV) file, 
> using COPY command.
>
> Another option is direct connection between Oracle and Postgres using 
> Heterogeneous Services (ODBC).
> I used it successfully to do conversion, though in opposite direction: 
> from Oracle to Postgres.
>
> Regards,
> Igor Neyman
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Jo,
>     I'm not at all familiar with pg or pg_dump, however, if pg is
>     capable of efficiently dumping data to flat files, my first
>     suggestion would be to write a formatted text file, perhaps csv,
>     and use Oracle external table to bulk load.  Insert /*+ append */
>     into oracle_table select * from external_table would do it.
>
>     Also, gives you opportunity to use nologging and do any necessary
>     data transformations on the fly by adding functions on columns in
>     select list, and finally, to do index builds (also nologging)
>     after data loads.
>
>     This approach should be pretty performant.
>
>     Hope that helps,
>
>     -Mark
>     Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note™, an AT&T LTE smartphone
>
>
>
>     -------- Original message --------
>     Subject: migrate from PostgreSQL to Oracle
>     From: jo <jose.soares@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jose.soares@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     CC: migrate from PostgreSQL to Oracle
>
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm looking for some linux script to migrate from pg to oracle.
>     At the moment I dump data from pg using pg_dump in the format:
>     INSERT INTO table (columns) (values)
>     then I load it into the Oracle db using cx_Oracle
>     this procedure is so slow, and sometimes I have to edit and modify
>     data
>     manually because some INSERT format aren't compatible.
>     Is there any interesting linux script to do this more easily?
>
>     thanks
>     j
>
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