postgres/contrib/oracle/CHANGES

2001 05 09 - Initial version 1.0

2001 05 09 - Version 1.1
	- Add table grant extraction based on group. Oracle ROLES are groups in PG

2001 05 11 - Version 1.2
	- Views extraction is now really done with the option type=>'VIEW'
	- Add indexes extraction on tables.
	- Changes name of constraints, default is now used.
	- Add debug printing to see that the process is running :-)
	- Add extraction of only required tablename.
	- Add extraction of only n to n table indice. Indices of extraction can be obtained
	  with the option showtableid set to 1.
	- Fix print of NOT NULL field.
	- Complete rewrite of the grant extraction
	- Complete rewrite of most things

2001 06 20 - Version 1.3
	- Grant/privilege extraction are now done separatly with the option type=>'GRANT'
	- Sequence extraction with the option type=>'SEQUENCE'
	- Trigger extraction with the option type=>'TRIGGER'
	- Function extraction with the option type=>'FUNCTION' and type=>'PROCEDURE'
	- Complete rewrite of the foreign key extraction
	- Fix incorrect type translation and many other bug fix
	- Add schema only extraction by option schema => 'MYSCHEM'

2001 06 27 - Version 1.4
	- Add online Oracle data extraction and insertion into PG database.
	- Data export as insert statement (type => DATA)
	- Data export as copy from stdin statement (type => COPY)

2001 12 28 - Version 1.5
	- Fix LongReadLen problem when exporting Oracle data on LONG and LOB types
	  Thanks to Stephane Schildknecht for reporting and testing the fix.
	- Add more precision on NUMBER type conversion
	- Add conversion of type LONG, LOB, FILE
	- Fix a problem when extracting data, sometime table could need to be prefixed
	  by the schema name.
	- Fix output of Oracle data extraction. It now require a call to the function
	  export_data().

2002 01 07 - Version 1.6
	- Fix problem exporting NULL value. Thanks to Stephane Schildknecht.

2002 02 14 - Version 1.7
	- Remove export of OUTLINE object type. Thanks to Jean-Paul ARGUDO.

2002 03 05 - Version 1.8
	- Add Oracle type FLOAT conversion to float8.
	- Add column alias extraction on view. Thanks to Jean-Francois RIPOUTEAU
	- Add PACKAGE extraction (type => DATA).

2002 06 04 - Version 1.9
	- Fix a problem export data which fill NULL instead of 0 or empty string.
	  Thanks to Jan Kester.
	- Add time with date when export data [ tochar('YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ].
	  Thanks to Paolo Mattioli.

2002 07 29 - Version 1.10
	- Fix a problem with local settings regarding decimal separator (all ,
	  are changed to .) Thank to Jan Kester.

2002 09 27 - Version 1.11
	- Fix a problem when retrieving package+package body. Thanks to Mike WILHELM-HILTZ
	- Set LongReadLen to 100000 when exporting table information. Many users reports
	  this kind of error: A-01406 LongReadLen too small and/or LongTruncOk not set
	  This should fix the problem else you must increase the value (around line 422 of Ora2Pg.pm.
	- Filtering by owner for better performance when retreiving database schema. Thanks to Jefferson MEDEIROS

2002 12 03 - Version 1.12

I have fixed 2 bugs when using it against Oracle 817R3 on linux.

	- Fix problem regarding RI constraints, the owner name was not
	  getting into the sql statement. Thank to Ian Boston.

	- Moved all the RI constraints out of the create table statement.
	  Thank to Ian Boston for this contribution. This was a major request
	  from Ora2pg users.

2002 12 26 - Version 2.0

	- Clean code.
	- Fix COPY output on column value with end of line and add column naming.
	- Add support to the PostgreSQL 7.3 schema. So Oracle schema can now be exported.
	  (see export_schema init option)
	- Remove data extraction limit (old default: 10) so each tuple will be dump by default.


Thanks for all congratulation message and bug report+fix I received.

Gilles DAROLD <gilles@darold.net>