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From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: bigger problem
To: "Carlos Sousa" <carlosdsousa@hotmail.com>,
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Carlos,

> in postgres database i created a table with a field like
> 
> create table (...)
> (...)
> var text default '' not null
> (...)
> 
> now i need to import the data from this table into a oracle database
> i used pg_dump
> 
> I altered the field data type to
> 
> (...)
> var varchar2(50) default '' not null
> (...)
> 
> but when i was importing the the table into the oracle database all
> the rows with the field var='' were not inserted.
> Is there a way to work this around

This is a problem with your configuration of Oracle import.   See your
Oracle documentation; we cannot help you here.

-Josh Berkus