When working with PostgreSQL, database developers may encounter a limitation when attempting to create routines with more than 100 arguments. PostgreSQL enforces this restriction by setting FUNC_MAX_ARGS to 100 during the server build. Although this limitation is rarely an issue, complex procedures, particularly those migrated from Oracle, may have a significantly higher number of arguments. This blog post outlines a solution to handle such situations by utilizing composite data types to bypass the argument limit, ensuring routine compilation without significant […]
The AWS SCT Extension Pack is designed to emulate Oracle’s system functions, procedures, and other database objects within PostgreSQL. This emulation is achieved by creating a special schema in PostgreSQL, named aws_oracle_ext, where these functions and objects are stored. This pack simplifies migration by replacing Oracle-specific calls with their PostgreSQL equivalents, ensuring that the code functions correctly post-migration. For example, consider the following transformations: Oracle PostgreSQL SELECT sysdate FROM dual; SELECT aws_oracle_ext.sysdate() SELECT to_char(sysdate, ‘dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss’), to_char(sysdate, ‘dd.mm.rrrr’) FROM dual; […]