Ora2Pg - Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter
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SYNOPSIS
BEGIN {
$ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = '/usr/local/oracle/oracle816';
}
use strict;
use Ora2Pg;
# Init the database connection
my $dbsrc = 'dbi:Oracle:host=testdb.samse.fr;sid=TEST;port=1521';
my $dbuser = 'system';
my $dbpwd = 'manager';
# Create an instance of the Ora2Pg perl module
my $schema = new Ora2Pg (
datasource => $dbsrc, # Database DBD datasource
user => $dbuser, # Database user
password => $dbpwd, # Database password
);
# Create the POSTGRESQL representation of all objects in the database
$schema->export_schema("output.sql");
exit(0);
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DESCRIPTION
Ora2Pg is a perl OO module used to export an Oracle database schema to
a PostgreSQL compatible schema.
It simply connect to your Oracle database, extract its structure and
generate a SQL script that you can load into your PostgreSQL database.
I'm not a Oracle DBA so I don't really know something about its
internal structure so you may find some incorrect things. Please tell
me what is wrong and what can be better.
It currently only dump the database schema, with primary, unique and
foreign keys. I've tried to excluded internal system tables but
perhaps not enougt, please let me know.
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ABSTRACT
The goal of the Ora2Pg perl module is to cover all part needed to
export an Oracle database to a PostgreSQL database without other thing
that provide the connection parameters to the Oracle database.
Features must include:
- database schema export (done)
- grant export (done)
- predefined function/trigger export (todo)
- data export (todo)
- sql query converter (todo)
My knowledge regarding database is really poor especially for Oracle
so contribution is welcome.
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REQUIREMENT
You just need the DBI and DBD::Oracle perl module to be installed
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PUBLIC METHODS
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new HASH_OPTIONS
Creates a new Ora2Pg object.
Supported options are:
- datasource : DBD datasource (required)
- user : DBD user (optional with public access)
- password : DBD password (optional with public access)
Attempt that this list should grow a little more because all
initialization is done by this way.
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export_sql FILENAME
Print SQL conversion output to a filename or to STDOUT if no file is
given.
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PUBLIC METHODS
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_init HASH_OPTIONS
Initialize a Ora2Pg object instance with a connexion to the Oracle
database.
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_tables
This function is used to retrieve all table information.
Set the main hash of the database structure $self->{tables}. Keys are
the names of all tables retrieved from the current database. Each
table information compose an array associated to the table_info key as
array reference. In other way:
$self->{tables}{$class_name}{table_info} = [(OWNER,TYPE)];
TYPE Can be TABLE, VIEW, SYSTEM TABLE, GLOBAL TEMPORARY, LOCAL
TEMPORARY, ALIAS, SYNONYM or a data source specific type identifier.
It also get the following informations in the DBI object to affect the
main hash of the database structure :
$self->{tables}{$class_name}{field_name} = $sth->{NAME};
$self->{tables}{$class_name}{field_type} = $sth->{TYPE};
It also call these other private subroutine to affect the main hash of
the database structure :
@{$self->{tables}{$class_name}{column_info}} = &_column_info($self, $class_
name);
@{$self->{tables}{$class_name}{primary_key}} = &_primary_key($self, $class_
name);
@{$self->{tables}{$class_name}{unique_key}} = &_unique_key($self, $class_n
ame);
@{$self->{tables}{$class_name}{foreign_key}} = &_foreign_key($self, $class_
name);
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_get_sql_data
Returns a string containing the entire SQL Schema definition
compatible with PostgreSQL
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_sql_type INTERNAL_TYPE LENGTH
This function return the PostgreSQL datatype corresponding to the
Oracle internal type.
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_column_info TABLE
This function implements a Oracle-native column information.
Return a list of array reference containing the following informations
for each column the given a table
[( column name, column type, column length, nullable column, default
value )]
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_primary_key TABLE
This function implements a Oracle-native primary key column
information.
Return a list of all column name defined as primary key for the given
table.
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_unique_key TABLE
This function implements a Oracle-native unique key column
information.
Return a list of all column name defined as unique key for the given
table.
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_foreign_key TABLE
This function implements a Oracle-native foreign key reference
information.
Return a list of hash of hash of array reference. Ouuf! Nothing very
difficult. The first hash is composed of all foreign key name. The
second hash just have two key known as 'local' and remote'
corresponding to the local table where the foreign key is defined and
the remote table where the key refer.
The foreign key name is composed as follow:
'local_table_name->remote_table_name'
Foreign key data consist in two array representing at the same indice
the local field and the remote field where the first one refer to the
second. Just like this:
@{$link{$fkey_name}{local}} = @local_columns;
@{$link{$fkey_name}{remote}} = @remote_columns;
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_get_privilege
This function implements a Oracle-native tables grants information.
Return a hash of all groups (roles) with associated users and a hash
of arrays of all grants on related tables.
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AUTHOR
Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net>
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001 Gilles Darold - All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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BUGS
This perl module is in the same state as my knowledge regarding
database, it can move and not be compatible with older version so I
will do my best to give you official support for Ora2Pg. Your volontee
to help construct it and your contribution are welcome.
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SEE ALSO
DBI, DBD::Oracle
