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Paul Delannoy f7e8aaa2d8 'Oracle-to-PostgreSQL Migration Expert' Custom Agent: Update Custom Agent & Plugin & Skills (#2566)
* Enhance Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration skills and documentation

- Update migration agent guidelines to prioritize extension tool usage for code migration.
- Refine migration phases with detailed steps for pre-migration review and schema migration.
- Add new reviewing skill references for PostgreSQL materialized view refresh and UNION ALL planner risks.
- Ensure consistency in collation handling and testing strategies across skills.

* - Review migration phases to ensure correct order of execution
- Add exit criteria to each migration phase
- Remove invocation of `ms-ossdata.vscode-pgsql` extension due to dependency on VSCode
- Update README.md to reflect changes in migration phases and exit criteria
- Update broken reference to custom agent in plugin.json

* Enhance downstream migration skills and following custom agent improvements

- Added new skill for migrating .NET data access code from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
- Updated README to include new migration skill.
- Improved existing skills with clearer file naming conventions and migration actions.
- Added reference documents for handling Oracle-specific functions and pagination.
- Created detailed guides for NVL, DECODE, ROWNUM, SYSDATE, and DUAL replacements.

* Clarify PostgreSQL schema immutability and stored procedure migration risks

* Update target schema path in migration documentation for clarity

* fix(skills): clarify Phase 3-only scope for Oracle test skills

Both Oracle test skills were ambiguously worded in ways that could
cause a model to invoke them during Phase 6 (PostgreSQL test migration)
instead of using them exclusively in Phase 3.

Key changes:
- Rewrite descriptions to explicitly state Phase 3-only usage and
  warn against invoking during Phase 6
- Replace "scaffold for Oracle first" with "Oracle only" to remove
  the false implication of a second PostgreSQL scaffolding step
- Replace "Tests validate behavior consistency when running against
  Oracle or PostgreSQL" with clear Oracle-only framing
- Rename "DB-agnostic assertions" → "Assertion portability" and
  explain the why (survive Phase 6 migration without rewrites)
- Fix datetime bullet in integration tests skill to use generic
  Oracle column precision language instead of PostgreSQL type syntax
- Name Oracle NuGet package explicitly (Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Core)

* feat(oracle-to-postgres): gate Phase 1 on DDL presence; add DDL scan to Phase 2 risk analysis

- Phase 1 success criteria now requires Oracle DDL artifacts to be
  confirmed present at the recorded location before proceeding.
  If missing, the agent stops and prompts the user to provide them.

- Phase 2 risk analysis now explicitly scans DDL/Oracle/{ProjectName}/
  as supplemental context, summarising procedure complexity indicators
  (dynamic SQL, DBMS_* / UTL_* references, autonomous transactions,
  pipelined functions, BULK COLLECT/FORALL, REF CURSOR, TYPE bodies)
  rather than ingesting DDL files wholesale. This ensures schema-level
  migration risk is captured even when it isn't visible in application
  code alone.

* - Merge in latest 'main' changes
- Update custom agent plugin (eg resolve conflict and add new skill)
- Validate skills
- Run build

* chore(plugin.json): update version to 1.1.0

* feat(oracle-to-postgres): update version to 1.1.0 for migration expert plugin

* fix: add INOUT to ignore-words-list for PostgreSQL migration

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Co-authored-by: TCPrimedPaul <paul.delannoy@tc.gc.ca>
2026-08-11 12:47:51 +10:00

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Reference Index

File Brief description
empty-strings-handling.md Oracle treats '' as NULL; PostgreSQL keeps empty strings distinct—patterns to align behavior in code, tests, and migrations.
no-data-found-exceptions.md Oracle SELECT INTO raises "no data found"; PostgreSQL doesnt—add explicit NOT FOUND handling to mirror Oracle behavior.
oracle-nvl-decode-functions.md Oracle NVL/NVL2/DECODE have no direct equivalents—replace with COALESCE, CASE WHEN, and NULL-safe comparisons.
oracle-parentheses-from-clause.md Oracle allows FROM(TABLE_NAME) syntax; PostgreSQL requires FROM TABLE_NAME—remove unnecessary parentheses around table names.
oracle-rownum-pagination.md Oracle ROWNUM is assigned before ORDER BY; replace top-N and pagination patterns with LIMIT/OFFSET.
oracle-sysdate-sequences-dual.md Replace SYSDATE/SYSTIMESTAMP with NOW(), sequence .NEXTVAL with nextval('seq'), and remove FROM DUAL.
oracle-to-postgres-sorting.md How to preserve Oracle-like ordering in PostgreSQL using COLLATE "C" and DISTINCT wrapper patterns.
oracle-to-postgres-to-char-numeric.md Oracle allows TO_CHAR(numeric) without format; PostgreSQL requires format string—use CAST(numeric AS TEXT) instead.
oracle-to-postgres-type-coercion.md PostgreSQL strict type checks vs. Oracle implicit coercion—fix comparison errors by quoting or casting literals.
postgres-union-all-planner.md UNION ALL branches can produce poor plans when predicate pushdown is limited—review plans and split or reshape queries when needed.
postgres-materialized-view-refresh.md Materialized views are not auto-refreshed after base-table changes—application or jobs must explicitly refresh them.
postgres-concurrent-transactions.md PostgreSQL allows only one active command per connection—materialize results or use separate connections to avoid concurrent operation errors.
postgres-refcursor-handling.md Differences in refcursor handling; PostgreSQL requires fetching by cursor name—C# patterns to unwrap and read results.
oracle-to-postgres-timestamp-timezone.md CURRENT_TIMESTAMP / NOW() return UTC-normalised timestamptz in PostgreSQL; Npgsql surfaces DateTime.Kind=Unspecified—force UTC at connection open and in application code.