Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:15:32 +0200 From: "Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OCI support in PHP is dead Message-ID: <4E1EC1C4.9010002@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <4E1EBA43.50508@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20110714061600.GA45797@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <4E1EBA43.50508@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8
>> is marked as vulnerable.
>>
>
> Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more
> up to date support are
>
> -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package
> for FreeBSD
>
> -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under
> emulation.
>
> I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I
> suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return
> to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client.
I suspect getting oracle to create such a client would cost (per user)
about half a cent less than replacing the oracle DB would. They're
(in)famous for such calculations.
> The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared
> object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into
> various PHP applications.
This one might be a bit cheaper.
> The future looks Postgresql shaped to me.
Or any other non-yacht-sponsoring DB.
//Svein
p.s. I've had the "pleasure" of having dealt with Oracle on several
occasions.
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