Oracle-L: Re: Perl DBD::Oracle - discontinuing support for Oracle 7 and Oraperl?

From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce_at_pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:58:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005776DA.20030401125840@fatcity.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:08:31AM -0800, Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Personally, I have a few v7 db's around. My DBD interaction with them
> however
> is limited to logging on to the database just to make sure it's still up.
>
> Would removing OCI7 support include removing the ability to logon to a v7 db?

You can login to whatever the oracle client libs you link with will let you log into. For v8 libs that includes v7. I did hear recently that v9.x no longer lets you connect to v7.

You could always keep a copy of DBD::Oracle 1.14 for use with Oracle 7. Just install it into a different directory.

Tim.

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