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Re: oracle_fwd - is it safe or not?

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 05:37:00PM +0100, Piotr Włodarczyk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have some question considering about oracle_fdw and safety of use it in
> production environment.
> 
> Problem we would like to resolve using this extension is to move data from five
> Oracle tables to Postgres database. To avoid situation that we have to trasfer
> data using sftp/ssh or another file based approach we decided to install
> oracle_fdw.
> 
> Our administrator have some doubt about this extension. He asked us, are we
> sure that this extension safe enough and didn't make any kernel panic sytuation
> beacuse as all another extension, this one can operate on system kernel level. 
> 
> Therefore if it's possible can You tell me more about safety this extension and
> release procedure and community of this module?

Uh, oracle_fwd uses a kernel module?  Are you sure?  That is surprising.

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