My workplace is transitioning from Oracle version 9 to version 11. I
would like to build the DBD driver to support connecting to the Oracle
11 database. However, until all the data are migrated from the old
database to the new one, I would need to maintain connectivity to the
old Oracle 9 database. Since the driver and shared objects built for the
new database would be incompatible, I would need to build separate
objects for the Oracle 11 connection.
Some of the items I can identify are:
The module should be Oracle11.pm rather than Oracle.pm (called as
DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle11:", ...) rather than
DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:", ...)).
The shared object and bootstrap files as Oracle11.so and Oracle11.bs
respectively. (Should these go in the same directory or should they be
in the directory Oracle11 and does the package name in Oracle11.pm have
to be changed to DBD::Oracle11 in order to find things there?)
I have some idea of what I need to change in Makefile.PL in order to
achieve at least part of this. What I have so far is changing references
to Oracle.pm to Oracle11.pm and $opts{NAME} from DBD::Oracle to Oracle
11. Am I right about the second? Are there others I should have included?
Thanks for any help,
Scott Smith
