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On 8 Jul 2003 at 12:03, Madhavi Daroor wrote:

Hi All,

How do I link a postgres server and an Oracle server and get the data from
an Oracle sever from a Postgres server? I'm using Postgres 7.2.3 on Red Hat
linux 7.2

Does postgres have any function to do so? And what other configuration
changes are need to achieve this?

Well no. There is nothing out of box that would help here.

You can try some approaches,

1. Dump oracle data in text format and load with copy.

2. Create a postgresql function in C which would also link against oracle
client libraries, query the data and insert in postgresql database.

3. If writing a postgresql C function seems dounting to you, you can try a
client application which links against both postgresql and oracle client
libraries and transfer the data in between.

(1) is obvious. Other two might be a choice if you have special situation.

HTH

Bye
Shridhar

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On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 7:58 am, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

On 8 Jul 2003 at 12:03, Madhavi Daroor wrote:

Hi All,

How do I link a postgres server and an Oracle server and get the data
from an Oracle sever from a Postgres server? I'm using Postgres 7.2.3 on
Red Hat linux 7.2

Does postgres have any function to do so? And what other configuration
changes are need to achieve this?

Well no. There is nothing out of box that would help here.

But I did see mention of a dblink for oracle a week or two ago. The dblink
package is in contrib and I'd suggest a search of the archives for "dblink"
and "oracle".

--
Richard Huxton

Here is someone looking for dblink with Oracle capability. It is not in
CVS yet, but we are trying to get it for 7.4. You might be able to run
/contrib/dblink from CVS in a few weeks without waiting for a 7.4 release.

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Richard Huxton wrote:

On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 7:58 am, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

On 8 Jul 2003 at 12:03, Madhavi Daroor wrote:

Hi All,

How do I link a postgres server and an Oracle server and get the data
from an Oracle sever from a Postgres server? I'm using Postgres 7.2.3 on
Red Hat linux 7.2

Does postgres have any function to do so? And what other configuration
changes are need to achieve this?

Well no. There is nothing out of box that would help here.

But I did see mention of a dblink for oracle a week or two ago. The dblink
package is in contrib and I'd suggest a search of the archives for "dblink"
and "oracle".

--
Richard Huxton

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