On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 12:02 PM, Josh Harrison <
joshques@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> We have an Oracle production database with some terbytes of data.
>> We wanted
>> to migrate that to Postgresql (rigt now...a test database and not
>> production) database.
>> What are the good options to do that?
>> Please advise me on where to look for more information on this topic
>
> You're going to need to use your brain for a fair portion of this,
> because how you use oracle will be just different enough from everyone
> else that no boxed solution.
>
> You have two steps to work on. The first is the DDL, to create
> equivalent tables in pgsql as in oracle, the second is to migrate over
> your data.
>
> I've generally done the ddl conversion by hand in an editor, and
> migrated data over with some scripting language like perl or php.
