Swiss PGDay2026

In this Birds of a Feather session, we are aimin to have an interactive workshop on the following topic:

Migrating from Oracle or DB2 to PostgreSQL offers greater flexibility and significant cost advantages, but only if the migrated data can be fully trusted. Even small, undetected data discrepancies can lead to serious business and operational consequences. This discussion focuses on the often-overlooked challenge of data validation in cross-platform database migrations. It examines why organisations struggle to obtain reliable validation guarantees and why traditional checklist-based approaches frequently fall short.