On 2008-04-17 21:43:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next > version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the > > Oracle 8 and > Oracle 9 clients > > I was just reviewing the code today and there are a large number of little > fixes here and there to make these two clients work with later versions of > DBD::Oracle.
We still have some 8i databases, but since they can be accessed with an
Oracle 10 client[0], that's not a problem. If I have a reason to upgrade to
a newer DBD::Oracle on a machine I can just install a version 10 client
there, too.
> So I was thinking of cleaning up the code so that the next version 1.22
> only supports 9.6 and later clients?
Go ahead.
hp
[0] Not just theoretically. I do have a number of perl scripts using a
version 10 client which access one of the old 8i databases.
Sometimes things are a bit weird (especially with UTF-8), but it
works.
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