Newsgroups: php.doc,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.doc:969385585 php.internals:85895 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 5671 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2015 11:03:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Apr 2015 11:03:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:48723] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C0/F6-56941-8FF77355 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:03:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 2965 invoked by uid 89); 22 Apr 2015 11:03:16 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 2919, pid: 2929, t: 0.1005s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.8?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 22 Apr 2015 11:03:16 -0000 Message-ID: <55377FEA.9090202@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:03:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net CC: phpdoc@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO Oracle driver From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 22/04/15 11:29, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > 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. It's not just PDO_OCI that is not getting as much love as other parts of the database driver interface. The generic drivers are still preferred over PDO which only provide a subset of engines. and PHP7 is going to affect other areas of the database infrastructure so perhaps we just need a review of all aspects? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk