Re: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:09:20AM -0400, Lyle Brooks wrote:
> 
> The only other comment I have on that approach is that the·
> interface comes out looking very C-like...meaning, the Perl
> interface looks almost like the OCI C interface, which is
> not too surprising.  I found myself wishing that Oracle::OCI
> would look more Perl-ish.  Of course, I understand the·
> argument that by mirroring the OCI C interface, then the Perl
> interface is consistent with the OCI C documentation and hence
> there would not be a need to learn "two" OCI interfaces.

I'd hope people would develop higher-level interfaces for various
aspects of Oracle functionality using Oracle::OCI as an underlying API.
An Oracle::AQ module for example.

> My work uses a good deal of the Oracle AQ functionality, and
> so I've found myself repeated wishing that I could find a·
> way to Oracle::OCI work...but it has left me mostly frustrated.

Hopefully between Charles, Martin, and yourself, we can breath some new
life into Oracle::OCI.

Tim.