Ora2Pg v20.0 released

Grenoble, France - January 18th, 2019

**Ora2Pg 20.0 released**

Version 20.0 of Ora2Pg, a free and reliable tool used to migrate an
Oracle database to PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is
publicly available for download.

This release fix several issues reported during the last three months
and adds several new features and improvement. The change of major
version is related to backward compatibility break with the removed of
most PG_SUPPORTS_* configuration directives and their replacement with
the new PG_VERSION directive.

The release adds some new features and configuration directives:

  * Add PG_VERSION configuration directive to set the PostgreSQL major
    version number of the target database. Ex: 9.6 or 10. Default is
    current major version at time of a new release. This replace the
    old PG_SUPPORTS_* configuration directives.
  * Removed all PG_SUPPORTS_* configuration directives minus
    PG_SUPPORTS_SUBSTR that is related to Redshift engine.
  * Export of BFILE as bytea is now done through a PL/SQL function to
    extract the content of a BFILE and generate a bytea data suitable
    for insert or copy into PostgreSQL.
  * Foreign keys that reference a partitioned table are no more
    exported.
  * Show table name on Oracle side during export using at connection
    time: DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_ACTION(table_name);
  * When the date format is ISO and the value is a constant the call
    to to_date() is removed and only the constant is preserved. For
    example: to_date(' 2013-04-01 00:00:00','SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
    is replaced by a simple call to: ' 2013-04-01 00:00:00'.
    This rewrite is limited to PARTITION export type when directive
    PG_SUPPORTS_PARTITION is enabled.
  * Add DATA_EXPORT_ORDER configuration directive. By default data
    export order will be done by sorting on table name. If you have
    huge tables at end of alphabetic order and are using multiprocess,
    it can be better to set the sort order on size so that multiple
    small tables can be processed before the largest tables finish.
    In this case set this directive to size. Possible values are name
    and size. Note that export type SHOW_TABLE and SHOW_COLUMN will
    use this sort order too, not only COPY or INSERT export type.
  * Add NO_BLOB_EXPORT configuration directive. Exporting BLOB could
    take time and you may want to export all data except the BLOB
    columns. In this case enable this directive and the BLOB columns
    will not be included into data export. The BLOB column must not
    have a NOT NULL constraint. Thanks to Ilya Vladimirovich for the
  * Add PREFIX_SUB_PARTITION to enable/disable sub-partitioning table
    prefixing in case of the partition names are a part of the sub-
    partition names.
  * Add special replacement for case of epoch syntax in Oracle:
        (sysdate - to_date('01-Jan-1970', 'dd-Mon-yyyy'))*24*60*60
    is replaced by the PostgreSQL equivalent:
        (extract(epoch from now()))

For a complete list of change see
https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog

Thanks to all contributors, they are all cited in the changelog file.

Useful Links:

    - Website: http://www.ora2pg.com/
    - Download1: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/releases
    - Download2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ora2pg/
    - Development: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg
    - Changelog: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog
    - Documentation: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/README

About Ora2Pg :

Ora2Pg is an easy and reliable tool to migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
It is developed since 2001 and can export most of the Oracle objects into
PostgreSQL compatible code.

Ora2Pg works on any platform and is available under the GPL v3 licence.

Docs, Download & Support at http://www.ora2pg.com/

-- 
Gilles Darold