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orafce / orafce

orafce

The "orafce" project implements in Postgres some of the functions from the Oracle database that are missing (or behaving differently).Those functions were verified on Oracle 10g, and the module is useful for production work.

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551GitHub stars
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What it is

The "orafce" project implements in Postgres some of the functions from the Oracle database that are missing (or behaving differently).Those functions were verified on Oracle 10g, and the module is useful for production work.

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-26 15:56:56 UTC to 2025-04-16 01:48:14 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Is there even a grammar for Oracle SQL? I took a swing at trying to slurp it out of the "alt text" of the railroad images in the many, many html files in (e.g. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... -> https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... ) but then I thankfully moved off any project from that point on that used Oracle and let it go I'm aware of https://github.com/orafce/orafce and https://github.com/pgoracle before that (the commit history also references ora2pg and searching for that surfaces https://github.com/darold/ora2pg which was just updated yesterday!) but I've never tried to use any of them in anger
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