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To: Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO Oracle driver
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

> On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:50 PM, christopher jones =
<christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote:
>=20
> 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/).
>=20
> I think the 'experimental' tag is unwarranted.  It has some bugs -
> probably fewer than the rest of PHP, but is usable.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> So, lets not mark PDO_OCI as dead just yet.

This is good news. And I agree we shouldn=E2=80=99t give up on PDO_OCI =
just yet especially if Oracle is willing to take a look at it.
I actually just met with a very large global brand a couple of weeks ago =
which was successfully using PDO_OCI.

Andi