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Subject: Re: PDO Oracle driver
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

Stelian Mocanita wrote:
>
> 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.

The removal of pdo_oci had been suggested as part of the "Removal of
dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions" RFC, but there has
been feedback from Christopher Jones, that the extension will be
supported by Oracle.[1]

[1]
<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis_and_exts#extpdo_oci_and_extoci8>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker