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Published inJan 2023
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
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Moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL

So far, we have seen how the most important advanced SQL features can be ported or used in PostgreSQL. Given this introduction, it is time to take a look at migrating Oracle database systems in particular.

These days, migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL has become really popular due to Oracle’s new license and business policy. Around the world, people are moving away from Oracle and adopting PostgreSQL.

Using the oracle_fdw extension to move data

One of my preferred methods to move users from Oracle to PostgreSQL is Laurenz Albe’s oracle_fdw extension (https://github.com/laurenz/oracle_fdw). It is a foreign data wrapper (FDW) that allows you to represent a table in Oracle as a table in PostgreSQL. The oracle_fdw extension is one of the most sophisticated FDWs and is rock solid, well-documented, free, and open source.

Installing the oracle_fdw extension requires you to install the Oracle client library. Fortunately, there are...

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Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
Read more about Hans-Jürgen Schönig