How to install and configure DBI-Link to join Oracle tables from PostgreSQL on Debian GNU/Linux
If you want to join Oracle tables from PostgreSQL on Debian GNU/Linux, you can use DBI-Link . Also, you can use PostgreSQL queries to access Oracle tables as local schemas. At some deployment scenarios, one may have to access Oracle tables transparently using PostgreSQL functions, without installing other language specific libraries. There is a caveat for this version: Each query will load data from remote Oracle server to the local PostgreSQL shadow table. You can execute remotely on Oracle backend using remote_select as described here . Installation You will need the alien package to convert rpm files to deb files. You will need to have an Oracle account to download the Oracle Instant Client Basic and Oracle Instant Client Devel rpm files suitable for your Oracle backend version from the vendor site. At this example, we will use oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm oracle-instantclient-devel-10.2.0.3-1.i386.r...