Re: Oracle < 8.1.7
| From: | Maxim Maletsky | Date: | Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:16:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle < 8.1.7 | ||
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Perhaps, but not all is that easy - OCI uses its own definitions for
every function, and so far I have not found what defined this one. Also
because there is no documentation about this call whatsoever, I am a little
lost understanding it well - I only see how it is used with several
libraries.
---
Maxim Maletsky
maxim@php.net
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:09:13 +0200 (EET) Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> Can't you just check if it exists and add some #ifdef's in the code?
>
> --Jani
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote:
>
> >
> >Guys,
> >
> >I'm hassling on a quite mysterious and not documented (but pretty useful)
> >function for OCI8 called OCIServerRelease() which would return you the
> >Oracle Server release integer for compatibility comparisons.
> >
> >Because there are no official docs anywhere about this function (WTF? google
> >only returns 2 pages both of which is Ruby's OCI8 module docs), I was
> >unable to track it's BC, although tests for me worked just fine.
> >
> >So, what I am trying to do instead is to test this OCI call on lower Oracle
> >versions. So far it worked smoothly for me on three Oracle machines I
> >currently have access to:
> >
> >* Oracle9i Release 9.0.2.0.1
> >* Oracle9i Release 9.0.1.1.1
> >* Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0
> >
> >Both with Client 9.
> >
> >Does anyone have an access to any lower versions of Oracle Servers and
> >Oracle Clients to compile and test from CVS? Especially Client. If so,
> >please let me know.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >--
> >Maxim Maletsky
> >maxim@php.net
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> <- For Sale! ->
>