Re: a couple of questions

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:43:57PM -0800, Bruce Templeton wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a fantastic change.  There's just no way that the general 
> DBI interface can handle everything that oci supports.
> 
> I just have a couple of question.  First is whether you plan to support 
> oci7, or only oci8.  I don't know how much work will go into this new 
> module, but hopefully if it's mainly a wrapper around the OCI functions, 
> both can be supported.

Only OCI 8.

(Which is totally and radically different from, and better than, OCI 7.)

> Second, if I understand your message correctly, we'll be able to mix the two 
> api's.  So we can do a:
> 
> $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:", "scott", "tiger");
> $sth = $dbh->prepare("select long_text from mytable");
> 
> and then bind and fetch using the OCI calls?

Yes.

> Anyway, it looks like an excellent improvement.  Looking forward to checking 
> it out.

Thanks.

I hope to make something very rough available next week.

Tim.