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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PDO Oracle driver
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (christopher jones)



On 4/22/15 6:39 AM, Stelian Mocanita wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>
>
> Thanks for the info. Having Oracle supporting the extensions would be great, but I still feel like they should be re-released or something when
> they are done. While the OCI8 ext works with current versions, pdo_oci has been experimental for a long time and never reached maturity.
>
> Maybe Christopher Jones can jump in here and shed some light on the matter.
>
> Regards, Stelian
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>

The current state is that we will be looking at PDO_OCI and OCI8 for
PHP 7 in a short while.  Our good intentions got delayed as we have
been working on drivers for other languages
(https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb and
https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_oracle/).

I think the 'experimental' tag is unwarranted.  It has some bugs -
probably fewer than the rest of PHP, but is usable.

Yes, we do recommend using OCI8 over PDO_OCI.  This is partly due to
some inherent design and performance weaknesses of the overall PDO
architecture.

So, lets not mark PDO_OCI as dead just yet.

Chris

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