Re: Porting Web application written in Oracle 8 PL/SQL to Postgresql

Just to complement Domingo's and Josh's good responses...

On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:02:45AM -0800, Andy wrote:
>
> My company has a pretty big Web-based application written in PL/SQL
> using an Oracle 8 backend database. We're thinking about moving from
> Oracle to Postgresql. I wondered if there's any quick way to do the
> porting:

Not a quick way. But there's a way :)

> - Any auomated tools to translate the PL/SQL code & to create tables?
> - What process do you recommend for doing the porting?
> - Other suggestions?

As Domingo suggested, http://openacs.org/ is a pretty big web application
framework and applications built for Oracle and PostgreSQL. You can find
ideas in its data model of how to cope with the differences. It has
hundreds of PL/SQL (and PL/pgSQL) functions, and it's GPL'd.

The Porting Guide that Josh suggested is also included in the PostgreSQL
documentation, in the Programmer's Guide.

-Roberto
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