Request for resend of Oracle 7 OCI patch to fix LONG buffer bug
[email protected] (Tim Bunce)
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Someone sent me a patch for DBD::Oracle that fixed the problem that had
wrongly been labled as an Oracle bug. The 'bug' that triggers this message
from the test suite:
: Your version of Oracle 7 OCI has a bug that affects fetching LONG data.
: See the t/long.t script near lines 202 250 for more information.
: You can safely ignore this if: You don't fetch data from LONG fields;
: Or the LONG data you fetch is never longer than 65535 bytes long;
: Or you only fetch one LONG record in the life of a statement handle.
It was sent to me some months ago. Sadly I can't now find that patch :(
Hopefully this message will reach whoever sent the patch or someone who
has a copy (I can't remember if it want to the list or not).
Either way, I'm planning a DBD::Oracle release for tomorrow. I'll be
very minimal (relative to the vast backlog of changes/issues I need to
consider). The current change list reads:
Fix Oracle 7 build broken in previous release.
Fix for 64bit builds thanks to Alan Burlison.
Fix for 9i Makefile.PL thanks to Dong Wang.
Added Oracle.ex/curref.pl thanks to Geoffery Young.
REF types are now returned in a form usable with Oracle::OCI module
when using Oracle >= 8.1.x (untested at the moment)
Updated Makefile.PL and README.hpux thanks to Lincoln Baxter.
Tim.