On Oct 27, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> I need to migrate a 60 GB Postgres 7.4 running on Linux to Oracle
>> 10g running on Linux RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4 update 4
>> x86_64 . I need help with a workable solution.
>> I tried pg_dump but it does not allow dumping blobs for migration
>> to Oracle.
>> I tried a couple of tools but they do not work.
>> Oracle does not have a tool to do it for Postgres.
>>
>> I can only think of using ODBC driver but need help where the ODBC
>> should be installed.
>>
>> Should it be installed on the Oracle server and should it be a
>> Postgres ODBC? Where can I down load it from? I checked the
>> postgres.org website but it was not clear whehter I needed to
>> download the dll, mm, or msi!
>
> Sad to see you go... but dbi-link is likely your friend here.
You'll probably also want to convert the binary data to hex and then
back again, though maybe dbi-link can actually handle binary data
natively.
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