#26683: Oracle DBs: Add option to use VARCHAR2 data type
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Reporter: elarandjelovic | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Migrations | Version: 1.9
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: Oracle | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by shaib):
A few points:
1) Oracle 11.2 "extended support" is until 2020. We may decide to drop our
support of 11.2 earlier, but that wouldn't be nice to our users.
2) Varchar vs. NVarchar performance issues are well documented; such an
issue was [https://sourceforge.net/p/cx-oracle/mailman/message/35134630/
raised] only a few hours ago on the cx-oracle users group.
3) Actually, if anyone has the time to put into it, a compatibility-
breaking new Oracle backend could have a lot of benefits -- two important
problems that are hard to fix in a backward-compatible manner are the
performance issues around numbers (we translate many numbers to strings in
order to figure out the right Python type) and the case issues around
database object (tables etc) names.
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