Newsgroups: php.doc,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.doc:969385606 php.internals:85959 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98808 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2015 04:26:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Apr 2015 04:26:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.220.172 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.172 mail-qk0-f172.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.172] ([209.85.220.172:35737] helo=mail-qk0-f172.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E7/21-17556-67ABD355 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:26:30 -0400 Received: by qkhg7 with SMTP id g7so56553141qkh.2; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:26:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qD9z56cV1/ZKNOjFzIS6l3VbgvqglC0y6dVVeOpGNEE=; b=e/vWSU229PAyBYwc1kxJFFFhC8XYrfFHPk6ZS5h4uRkHdq5hj4IqQVsVMpRgLz1EJP V3crrDWbqI/+mVI+K9gxomjwmerimB8MflQm1wxrvHW2RTFV0cyAWfcBVnaA9A51xCLu aRB2PdvCjUmR28b9YvU/TLjpFvc8AzcUCW9qgO6aCrBTVzWlnBXPLg2Spz9US22MStlp n+TAWH/vWxQ7BZR0dlh9Cm/GvBXmdp2UrKdukdjZJKNI3W0fzSJhRw9oCgKcHOql5BxP eO1ytuB88rYSEJGEt4Xm8WVDl33d7fd8Te1qoNOF7UAgEBDLxR4MSUE3bftrXZOqNQ35 j02g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.33.107 with SMTP id i98mr6228118qgi.4.1430108787483; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.96.127.166 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:26:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <68E77626-81C8-4C9B-A5EC-126DE90CF203@zend.com> References: <5537826A.9010209@gmx.de> <5538881C.8010502@oracle.com> <68E77626-81C8-4C9B-A5EC-126DE90CF203@zend.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:26:27 +0700 Message-ID: To: Andi Gutmans Cc: Christopher Jones , PHP internals , Peter Cowburn , phpdoc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO Oracle driver From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:50 PM, christopher jones wrote: >> >> 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. > > This is good news. And I agree we shouldn=E2=80=99t give up on PDO_OCI ju= st 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. I think It is more about moving out of core than actually marking any part of the OCI drivers as dead. It is not a bad idea and brings Oracle more flexibility and reduce the amount of codes we have to take care about, on release. --=20 Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org