# annotations again

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- Started by Christopher Jones on 2011-05-11T16:55:18+00:00
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## #52305 — Christopher Jones — 2011-05-11T16:55:18+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/52305#52305

guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote:

> > […]
>
> PDO is horrible. You have to implement workarounds for almost every driver
> For example Oracle driver... I already reported to Chris tons of
> issues (bug ids) that even include patches for each situation and I
> saw a *VERY* few bugs fixed.
> I know he has priorities and etc, but it seems that you flood your
> mouth to talk about PDO, but actually, writing abstraction drivers
> around it is very painful.

For the Oracle Database, Oracle contributes to and recommends the OCI8
extension.  We don't contribute to PDO_OCI.

Chris