From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: New Oracle system in our house, migration chances
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:07:44 +0200
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Στις 13/1/22 6:11 μ.μ., ο/η Alicja Kucharczyk έγραψε:
> czw., 13 sty 2022 o 17:04 Achilleas Mantzios
> <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com <mailto:achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>>
> napisał(a):
>
> On 13/1/22 5:02 μ.μ., Alicja Kucharczyk wrote:
>> czw., 13 sty 2022 o 15:54 Achilleas Mantzios
>> <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com
>> <mailto:achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>> napisał(a):
>>
>> On 13/1/22 4:51 μ.μ., Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> > Julien Rouhaud schrieb am 13.01.2022 um 15:13:
>> >> I would go with option A if possible. If you want to get
>> an idea of how
>> >> complicated a migration would be, ora2pg does have a
>> migration cost assessment
>> >> report [1]. It can even check the queries if you have the
>> audit trail enabled
>> >> on your oracle database (if that existed in that version).
>> >>
>> > I second this. Option A) is much cleaner. In my experience
>> compatibility layers
>> > that promise that "System A" behaves exactly like "System
>> B" also introduce
>> > a lot of additional problems. And if something goes wrong,
>> you can never be sure
>> > which part causes the problem.
>> Thanks, of course I agree with the last sentence.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Achilleas Mantzios
>> DBA, Analyst, IT Lead
>> IT DEPT
>> Dynacom Tankers Mgmt
>>
>>
>>
>> just to be clear is it an ISV or in-house built system? Because I
>> see two different answers ...
>
> in-house, and when not in house source is available, can you pls
> show me where I wrote a conflicting answer?
>
> ok, then sorry for the confusion. I interpreted the answer
> from Michael Vitale asking for the version etc. as it would be an ISV
> which has not matched with your statement. So in that case I also do
> vote for A :)
PowerBuilder was (is?) a development environment/solution which was
blooming back in the client-server era. The language is weird to the
eyes of a java/C/etc person.
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