Re: Substitutes for some Oracle packages

DBMS_OUTPUT is used to either display output or write output to a file. UTL_FILE is used to open a file and then write data to a file. Most of the time we use these two packages to create log files from PL/SQL stored procedures/packages.

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From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Sam Mason
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:04 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Substitutes for some Oracle packages

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:53:36PM -0400, Arnold, Sandra wrote:
> We are in the process of migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL. One of
> the things that we are needing to find out is what to use in place of
> Oracle supplied functionality such as "DBMS_OUTPUT" and "UTL_FILE".

For those of us who use PG and not Oracle a description of the
functionality you need would help, the artifacts of your current
implementation are less helpful. That said:

plpgsql can RAISE NOTICE, which looks similar to DBMS_OUTPUT

most "untrusted" scripting languages (i.e. plperl or plpython) can
touch the filesystem, which is what UTL_FILE seems to be about

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