Hi, I'm thinking the answer to this is probably no, but anyway... We have a big perl job sitting on top of an oracle database (accessed via DBI DBD::Oracle). Some of the functionality we are implementing as XS routines. Now I would really like to implment some XS routines which interact with the database (using oracle OCI library which is what DBD::Oracle does), but to do this we need to be able to some how extract the OCI handles from the DBI object. Is this possible? Even if possible is it a good idea? By bypassing DBI (and DBD::Oracle) would I be corrupting some of its state stuff? (other perl code would still be using them normally).
Have looked around and not found anyone talking about this. I know I can call back the perl DBI functions from XS for the database routines, but this is not ideal.
