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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:29:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO Oracle driver
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com>
wrote:

> cc-ing doc list
>
> On 22 April 2015 at 10:40, Stelian Mocanita <stelian.mocanita@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello internals,
> >
> > I would like to ask what on your thoughts on removing the Oracle drive
> for
> > PDO from the documentation (http://us1.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-oci.php
> )
> > at least since it's been experimental for a long time now, and it has
> long
> > standing open bugs, such as:
> >
> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37706
> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46728
> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60994
> >
> > I know that the extension is marked as experimental already but based on
> > the current status, it's not even that and a significant amount of basic
> > functionality is broken.
>

When working on Doctrine support for Oracle we quickly realized that a lot
of bugfixes are done in oci8, but PDO_OCI doesnt get them.

A big +1 from me for removing this extension from core, given its critical
bugs/segfaults with simple features like CLOBs i cannot recommend it to
anyone.


> >
> > Regards,
> > Stelian
> >
>

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