oracledump.pl works on Oracle 8i, fails on Oracle 7.3.4

From: P. Bianchi <ppbianchi__at_virgilio.it>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:26:37 +0000
Message-ID: <av46jl$bqfnp$1@ID-163647.news.dfncis.de>

Trying to mirror Oracle data onto Mysql, using oracledump.pl perl script (great utility, a big thanks! to the author).

Oracledump succeeds in dumping tables from a O8i database (residing on the same linuxbox).

It fails in dumping tables from a 7.3.4 production database (placed on a different unix server) with the following output:

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Checking table structure for table TBLCONFREPARTI Fetching keys for table TBLCONFREPARTI
Fetching indexes for table TBLCONFREPARTI Printing CREATE TABLE statement for table TBLCONFREPARTI  

CREATE TABLE TBLCONFREPARTI (, PRIMARY KEY (STRIDREPARTO,BYTVERSIONE) ); Preparing SELECT statement to fetch data from table TBLCONFREPARTI

Can't call method "execute" on an undefined value at ./oracledump.pl line 274.

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Linux RH7.3, Kernel 2.4.18.10, Perl 5.6.1, DBI unknown, DBD-Oracle 1.12, Oracledump "may 2001", Oracle 7.3.4 on an IBM AIX server.

Any hint why the script oracledump, after having accessed and read the source database over the network, fails to write down the output?

TIA
P. Bianchi     Received on Fri Jan 03 2003 - 09:26:37 CST