On June 16 2022, a new PostgreSQL 14 minor release will be published by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. The new PostgreSQL 14.4 release fixes an issue with all versions of PostgreSQL 14 that can lead to silent corruption of indexes. Usually, the community announces a minor version update on the second Tuesday of the second month of …
Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes Read More »
While migrating from other databases like Oracle to PostgreSQL, we may come across some functionalities that may be only available with a complex work-around. At MigOps, we have migrated many customers from Oracle to PostgreSQL and I have personally seen many scenarios where direct equivalent is not possible. One of them was while working with regular expressions. There …
PostgreSQL 15 will include some more regexp functions Read More »
When you are working on Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations, one of the Oracle packages that cause conversion issues is DBMS_JOB. Traditionally, we used extensions like : pg_agent, pg_cron or more recently pg_timetable for scheduling jobs. All of these tools or extensions use a cronjob like scheduling method which does not give a full compatibility of the features provided …
Announcing PG_DBMS_JOB in PostgreSQL for Oracle DBMS_JOB compatibility Read More »
A few days ago, I decided to try this new extension called pg_validate_extupgrade written by Julien Rouhaud. This extension looks very interesting for those who are developing PostgreSQL extensions. The point is that when upgrading the extensions that you develop, you have to create upgrade files and, if necessary, downgrade files to go from one installed version to …
Validate PostgreSQL extension upgrade scripts using pg_validate_extupgrade Read More »
It has been 20 Years since i have been maintaining the Ora2Pg project, an Open Source software for Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations. The first version of Ora2Pg released on 9th May, 2001. Since then, there have been several features related to schema conversions and data migrations. Over a period of time, i have witnessed several tens of thousands …
Ora2PG now supports oracle_fdw to increase the data migration speed Read More »
One of the common problems while migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL is the need of Global Temporary Tables in PostgreSQL (GTT). There is no PostgreSQL equivalent for global temporary tables. Due to this reason, I have originally started the developed of an extension called : PGTT, to reduce the overall efforts involved while migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL. …
