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From Timo Myyrä
Subject Re: Oracle to postgres migration
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In response to Re: Oracle to postgres migration  (Vasilis Ventirozos <v.ventirozos@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2017, at 11:36, Vasilis Ventirozos wrote:
I'd start with this first : https://ora2pg.darold.net

On 26 Dec 2017, at 02:30, Azimuddin Mohammed <azimeiu@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
Can anyone guide me through the steps for migration from oracle to postgres with config changes required, keeping in mind that neither I am a oracle DBA not postgres admin

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Azim


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I second the ora2pg tool. Currently working on oracle to postgresql migration with it and ora2pg helps a lot.
But you can't get ready recipe for migration. There's ton of stuff to consider from trivial rewriting NVL queries to use COALESCE to more bigger stuff like lack of synonyms in postgresql. All depends on your current Oracle database.

Timo

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