Re: migrating oracle table to PostgresQL - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:46:51AM +0530, Gourish Singbal wrote:
> ora2pg tool can be used to accomplish the migration from oracle to
> postgresql.
> download it from here...
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ora2pg/
>
> The one in contib directory is an old version i guess.
>
> About clob, blob, and long columns in Oracle all become 'text' in
> postgresql.

Actually, you don't want to store binary (blob) data in a text field.
Use bytea instead, though it's limited to 1GB. You can also use large
objects, which go up to 2G.
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