For anyone interested, the below procedure worked well.
Randall
Randall Smith wrote:
> I am going to sync a schema in postgres with one in an oracle db. The
> tables are simple, but there are 200 of them. I would like to try to
> keep the sync lag < 1 minute. Here is my idea. Please critique/suggest.
>
> 1. Set up stored proc on oracle that records a INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
> SQL action taken on a table into a log table.
> 2. Program reads the log table on oracle and issues the same SQL command
> on the postgres db. In the same transaction, postgres writes to a log
> showing the command has been executed.
> 3. The program will query the oracle log table on some frequency ~30
> seconds.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Randall