Re: how to port Oracle database to PostgreSQL?

Thanks for your reply, however as I am a total newbie around here, I've
no clue how to get to postgresql-x.y.z/contrib. I looked on the main
page but couldn't find it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 7:10 PM
To: Vassilev, Lubomir G.
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to port Oracle database to PostgreSQL?

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:47, Vassilev, Lubomir G. wrote:
> ok, this is what's going on. i have this VB.NET application with
> Oracle 8.1.7 back end, but now i have to switch the whole thing to
> PostgreSQL. how do i do that? it's a big database, about 135 tables, a
> lot of views, triggers, a few stored procedures and functions. i
> understand there is some tool to do that.

There's a directory under postgresql-x.y.z/contrib called oracle that
has some helpful scripts.