Tim Bunce already started this, look up Oracle::Oci
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 17:51 -0700, Bud Swell wrote: > 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. > -- Scott T. Hildreth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
