David,
Sure, no problem. I have Oracle 8.1.7, Perl and DBI, DBD::Oracle on my Linux
laptop and connect without problem to a plethora of Oracle versions, ranging from
7.1.6 to 9i beta.
The only limitation is that you have to use SQL*Net v2 on older versions of
Oracle. Up to 7.3.4, SQL*Net v1 was still supported. Starting from 7.3.4, you
can't use v1 anymore. So, if you want to connect to pre-7.3.4 versions, make sure
you have the SQL*Net v2 listener configured and running.
Hope this helps,
Mark
David Good wrote:
> I've been wondering. We support a number of clients running various
> versions of Oracle and I'd like to have just one copy of DBD::Oracle that
> would be able to connect to them all. We currently have some custom Pro*C
> apps and to hear the developers talk about it, they have to be compiled
> alot differently for each version of Oracle they want it to run against.
>
> Is it possible to have one copy of DBD::Oracle that'll work with Oracle 7, 8
> and maybe even 9?
>
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