On 12/6/05, Martin J. Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I needed to find a thread I remembered from this mailing list and thought of > the list of mailing list archives on the dbi.perl.org web page. I found what I > was after in the groups.google.com archive but was surprised to see a number > of > other posts I did not recollect. Examples are: > > "DBD::Oracle for Oracle 9.2" thread started 1-dec-05 > http://groups.google.com/group/perl.dbi.users/browse_thread/thread/6ea69bfe603db > 4f5/e70f0c2efc0819a4?hl=en > > and > > How to Handle Transparent Application Failover TAF with DBD-Oracle > http://groups.google.com/group/perl.dbi.users/browse_thread/thread/e15d0e9ecc588 > 0ea/fc7c403d629391af?lnk=raot&hl=en#fc7c403d629391af > > In particular I could not believe I would have missed someone saying: > > "You can't do it. DBD::Oracle doesn't support TAF, direct loads or array > interface. DBI is not database neutral. DBI is geared toward MySQL and > PostgreSQL. > > DBD::Oracle is not being fixed because Tim Bunce is pushin open source > databases, and Oracle driver isn't getting fixed and/or enriched with the new > features. If you want a decent database driver, try with Python. " > > I cannot find these postings on the mail-archive.com or nntp.perl.org archives > so where did they come from? Is this some sort of mailing list to news gateway > issue I've missed?
The mailing list is closed - only signed up members can post. There's no way for groups.google.com to enforce that restriction, so 'phantom' postings can appear at Google. 'Bart the Bear" has never posted to dbi-users that I recall. -- Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2005.02 - http://dbi.perl.org "I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy every minute of it."
