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Package: postgresql-contrib
Version: 7.4.3-3
Severity: normal

The documentation has the file

postgresql-contrib: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-contrib/README.ora2pg.gz

but the underlying program is not to be found.

The info for the package mentions a program called oracle, but this is not in the package contents.



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On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:59, Tom Larrard wrote:

Package: postgresql-contrib
Version: 7.4.3-3
Severity: normal

The documentation has the file

postgresql-contrib: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-contrib/README.ora2pg.gz

but the underlying program is not to be found.

I see there is no Makefile in the upstream source for that directory, so
it didn't get included. Fortunately, no one seems to have needed it.
Your next comment suggests that you don't either :-)

The info for the package mentions a program called oracle, but this is not in the package contents.

Well, no. It wouldn't be! Oracle is a highly expensive proprietary
system. ora2pg.pl is a conversion script, which is of no use at all to
anybody who doesn't already have an Oracle database.

Oliver



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On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:47 pm, Oliver Elphick wrote:

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:59, Tom Larrard wrote:

Package: postgresql-contrib
Version: 7.4.3-3
Severity: normal

Well, no. It wouldn't be! Oracle is a highly expensive proprietary
system. ora2pg.pl is a conversion script, which is of no use at all to anybody who doesn't already have an Oracle database.

dpkg -I postgresql-contrib_7.4.3-3_i386.deb
....
oracle - Conversion utility for Oracle database schemas
....

so yes I do need ora2pg as well as *this* oracle found in the package info.

I already have the other oracle ;-) getting rid of it is the point of this exercise!

Tom



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On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 18:30, Tom Larard wrote:

On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:47 pm, Oliver Elphick wrote:

Well, no. It wouldn't be! Oracle is a highly expensive proprietary system. ora2pg.pl is a conversion script, which is of no use at all to anybody who doesn't already have an Oracle database.

dpkg -I postgresql-contrib_7.4.3-3_i386.deb
....
oracle - Conversion utility for Oracle database schemas
....

so yes I do need ora2pg as well as *this* oracle found in the package info.

Oh, I see what you mean. That "oracle" is the name of the contrib
module, but the programs it is supposed to supply are ora2pg.pl and
Ora2Pg.pm.

You can get those out of the source package, or from the CVS web
interface at www.postgresql.org; or wait till I put up the next release,
which should be soon.




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