Re: PDO Oracle driver

On 22/04/15 11:29, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > When working on Doctrine support for Oracle we quickly realized that a lot > of bugfixes are done in oci8, but PDO_OCI doesnt get them. > > A big +1 from me for removing this extension from core, given its critical > bugs/segfaults with simple features like CLOBs i cannot recommend it to > anyone. It's not just PDO_OCI that is not getting as much love as other parts of the database driver interface. The generic drivers are still preferred over PDO which only provide a subset of engines. and PHP7 is going to affect other areas of the database infrastructure so perhaps we just need a review of all aspects? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk