Announcing Credcheck extension to enforce username and password checks in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL includes robust security standards around all aspects such as authentication, authorization, accounting and auditing. User management and role based segregation that satisfy enterprise standards can be implemented at ease. Similarly, organizations may be willing to enforce certain compliance around the password standards such as the minimum upper case characters or minimum number of numbers and special characters
Ora2PG now supports oracle_fdw to increase the data migration speed
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
Global Temporary Table in PostgreSQL
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.
Porting Array length from Oracle PLSQL to PostgreSQL PLPGSQL
Migrating Oracle PL/SQL code to PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL requires a deeper understanding of the behavior in both Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. It is not only the syntax but also the behavior that is very important. Else, upon porting the PL/SQL code to PL/pgSQL, we may encounter some strange application behaviors that are difficult to trace. We would like to
CHAR(1) to Boolean transformation while migrating to PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL supports a wide variety of data types when compared to a few commercial databases like Oracle. For performance benefits, it may be wise to choose the optimal data types supported in PostgreSQL, instead of choosing the same ones as the source, while migrating from another database. In this article, we are going to discuss one such case
How difficult is to create a database software like PostgreSQL ?
Recently on twitter, i have seen a poll by Qovery asking how hard is it to create a database like PostgreSQL. With no surprise, people mostly voted it as “Very hard”. However, the word “like” in this question is very ambiguous, as rightly said in one of the comments by Dave Cramer, who is one of the very