Hello, I'd like to have a local PostgreSQL copy of a table stored (and growing) at the remote Oracle database: SQL> desc qtrack; Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ID NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20) EMAIL VARCHAR2(320) OSVERSION VARCHAR2(30) APPSVERSION VARCHAR2(30) QDATETIME DATE CATEGORY VARCHAR2(120) BETA_PROG VARCHAR2(20) CATINFO VARCHAR2(120) DEVINFO VARCHAR2(4000) NAME VARCHAR2(20) FORMFACTOR VARCHAR2(10) DETAILS VARCHAR2(50) EMAILID VARCHAR2(16) SQL> select id, qdatetime, dump(qdatetime) from qtrack where qdatetime > sysdate - 1 order by qdatetime ID QDATETIME -------------------- --------- DUMP(QDATETIME) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20021211162813691 27-SEP-34 Typ=12 Len=7: 142,134,9,27,22,20,13 2002121202429070 28-SEP-34 Typ=12 Len=7: 142,134,9,28,8,34,20 20021212052520472 28-SEP-34 Typ=12 Len=7: 142,134,9,28,8,60,32 2002121310073187 28-SEP-34 Typ=12 Len=7: 142,134,9,28,16,20,48 ...... 10106 rows selected. The ID is a string "20101210_some_random_numbers" (not growing :-( and they should have made it a primary key probably?) I'm preparing a PHP-script to be run as a nightly cronjob and will first find the latest qdatetime stored in my local PostgreSQL database and then just "select" in remote Oracle, "insert" into the local PostgreSQL database in a loop. But I wonder if there is maybe a cleverer way to do this? And I'm not sure how to copy the Oracle's strange DATE column best into PostgreSQL, without losing precision? Regards Alex -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general