Re: DBI-Users RE: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Bunce
I'm late to this thread (it went into a different mail folder). Lyle, have you see the Oracle::OCI module? It provides deep integration between Oracle::OCI and DBD::Oracle. To make that possible I added a get_oci_handle function pointer to DBD::Oracle's handles. It lets you ask for any kind of

RE: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Lyle Brooks
Tim, I have looked at the Oracle::OCI module. I really like the concept, and it would undeniably be an extremely useful and powerful tool. However, I couldn't get it to work (by that I mean...I couldn't get it to build). As I understand Oracle::OCI, rather than provide a handcrafted XS?

Re: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Charles Jardine
On 28/10/11 16:09, Lyle Brooks wrote: Tim, I have looked at the Oracle::OCI module. I really like the concept, and it would undeniably be an extremely useful and powerful tool. However, I couldn't get it to work (by that I mean...I couldn't get it to build). I still use Oracle::OCI.

Re: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 28/10/2011 16:09, Lyle Brooks wrote: Tim, I have looked at the Oracle::OCI module. I really like the concept, and it would undeniably be an extremely useful and powerful tool. However, I couldn't get it to work (by that I mean...I couldn't get it to build). As I understand Oracle::OCI,

Re: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 28/10/2011 16:34, Charles Jardine wrote: On 28/10/11 16:09, Lyle Brooks wrote: Tim, I have looked at the Oracle::OCI module. I really like the concept, and it would undeniably be an extremely useful and powerful tool. However, I couldn't get it to work (by that I mean...I couldn't get it

Re: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: On 28/10/2011 16:34, Charles Jardine wrote: I still use Oracle::OCI. There is a patch below which may allow you to build it under Oracle 11.2. As you will see, I have kept it going by botching things. Whenever a new feature of

Re: DBD-Oracle - obtaining OCI handles from $dbh

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:09:20AM -0400, Lyle Brooks wrote: The only other comment I have on that approach is that the� interface comes out looking very C-like...meaning, the Perl interface looks almost like the OCI C interface, which is not too surprising. I found myself wishing that