Matthew Seaman wrote: > > The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 > > is marked as vulnerable. > > > > Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more > up to date support are > > -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package > for FreeBSD > > -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under > emulation. > > I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I > suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return > to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client. > > The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared > object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into > various PHP applications.
I suspected that databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic is virtually useless. > > The future looks Postgresql shaped to me. > I don't believe so. Our in-house sites use Postgres, but sometimes they have to interact with commercial systems (ERP, NetID etc) and I don't envision commercial vendors moving from Oracle to Postgres any time soon. I even considered running sqlplus via ssh but this is too ugly and not compatible with PHP frameworks. Seems that FreeBSD has lost yet another niche in our company. Which is a real pity because Linux is a pain in the ass and Solaris is not free. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"