Re: Oracle->Postgres Migration Problems. - Mailing list pgadmin-support

Yup - I'm the DBA for the database, and was logging in with a user with the
DBA role assigned to them. I've also selected from the 'col' view on Oracle
to see the columns as that user.

David.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "'David Griffiths'" <dgriffiths@boats.com>;
<pgadmin-support@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:59 AM
Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] Oracle->Postgres Migration Problems.


> Hi David,
>
> Do you have sufficient privileges on the Oracle system? I have seen both
> Oracle & MS SQL Server fail to return column names in the past when the
uid
> had sufficient privileges to connect and see that a table existed, but not
> to look at the table structure.
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Griffiths [mailto:dgriffiths@boats.com]
> > Sent: 15 April 2002 22:33
> > To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [pgadmin-support] Oracle->Postgres Migration Problems.
> >
> >
> > I am trying to use the migration plugin to migrate my tables
> > and data from Orace 8i to Postgres 7.2 on Redhat 7.2
> >
> > I'm doing a small test to see how well it works, but I'm not
> > getting very far. I have Oracle installed, and have a System
> > DSN setup. If I pick a standard table (varchars, numbers,
> > dates) and do the conversion, I get:
> >
> > An error occured at: 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM:
> > 9: Subscript out of range
> >
> > Rolling back... Done.
> >
> > I read through the mailing archive, and noticed that Dave had
> > asked that debugging turned on and the contents of the log
> > window sent, so that's what I've done (nothing else in there
> > that I could find). I've just subscribed to the mailing list,
> > but I've looked to make sure I wasn't posting a topic that
> > had been answered earlier; but if I've missed it, I apologize.
> >
> > The logs are below (note that I asked for lower-case
> > conversion of all tables, indexes, etc). I x'd out any
> > connection info for security reasons.
> >
> > BTW, a great tool, aside from this little glitch.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:41 PM - Entering pgSchema:pgServer.ExecSQL("BEGIN",
> > "Connection: Provider=MSDASQL.1;Extended
> > Properties="DRIVER={PostgreSQL};DATABASE=xxx;SERVER=192.168.12
> .137;PORT=5
> > 432;UID=postgres;PWD=;READONLY=0;PROTOCOL=6.4;FAKEOIDINDEX=0;S
> > HOWOIDCOLUMN=0
> > ;ROWVERSIONING=0;SHOWSYSTEMTABLES=0;CONNSETTINGS=;FETCH=100;SO
> > CKET=4096;UNKN
> > OWNSIZES=0;MAXVARCHARSIZE=254;MAXLONGVARCHARSIZE=65536;DEBUG=1
> > ;COMMLOG=1;OPT
> > IMIZER=1;KSQO=1;USEDECLAREFETCH=0;TEXTASLONGVARCHAR=1;UNKNOWNS
> > ASLONGVARCHAR=
> > 1;BOOLSASCHAR=1;PARSE=0;CANCELASFREESTMT=0;EXTRASYSTABLEPREFIX
> > ES=dd_"")
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:41 PM - SQL (xxxx): BEGIN
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:41 PM - Creating table: BOATS
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:41 PM - Entering Database Migration
> > Wizard:frmWizard.txtStatus_Change()
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Entering Database Migration
> > Wizard:frmWizard.txtStatus_Change()
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Entering pgSchema:pgServer.Property
> > Get Databases() 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Entering
> > pgSchema:Databases.Property Get
> > Item("xxxx")
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Entering
> > pgSchema:pgDatabase.Execute("ROLLBACK",
> > 0, -1)
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Entering
> > pgSchema:pgDatabase.dbConnect() 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM -
> > Entering pgSchema:pgServer.ExecSQL("ROLLBACK",
> > "Connection: Provider=MSDASQL.1;Extended
> > Properties="DRIVER={PostgreSQL};DATABASE=xxxx;SERVER=192.168.1
> 2.137;PORT=5
> > 432;UID=postgres;PWD=;READONLY=0;PROTOCOL=6.4;FAKEOIDINDEX=0;S
> > HOWOIDCOLUMN=0
> > ;ROWVERSIONING=0;SHOWSYSTEMTABLES=0;CONNSETTINGS=;FETCH=100;SO
> > CKET=4096;UNKN
> > OWNSIZES=0;MAXVARCHARSIZE=254;MAXLONGVARCHARSIZE=65536;DEBUG=1
> > ;COMMLOG=1;OPT
> > IMIZER=1;KSQO=1;USEDECLAREFETCH=0;TEXTASLONGVARCHAR=1;UNKNOWNS
> > ASLONGVARCHAR=
> > 1;BOOLSASCHAR=1;PARSE=0;CANCELASFREESTMT=0;EXTRASYSTABLEPREFIX
> > ES=dd_"")
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - SQL (xxxx): ROLLBACK
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Entering Database Migration
> > Wizard:frmWizard.txtStatus_Change()
> > 15/4/2002 2:24:42 PM - Done - 1.54 Secs.
> >
> >
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