Re: Re: PDO Oracle driver

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:50 PM, christopher jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> 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’t 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. 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. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org