[Zope-DB] DCOracle2 Oracle9i problems

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Christopher Jenkins wrote (regarding executemany and Oracle 9i):

>
>Thanks for going to this trouble.  I only hope that after
>this amount of effort you will be able to resolve the problems.
>

BTW, I did check in a change today to the CVS code that I think has 
taken out the ambiguity that was setup for Oracle9i.  Personally, I read 
the documentation as allowing an OCIBindArrayOfStruct even when you 
aren't trying to bind a PL/SQL array variable (and this certainly works 
on Oracle 8.1) but this seems to trigger a check in Oracle 9i.  I'm sure 
if I reported this as a problem it would come back like the IBM 
"documentation APAR" meaning "we'll fix the documentation when we update 
it".  

AFAIK the code also continues to work for Oracle 8.0, and 8.1.   I'm 
nervous that there might be some alignment problems, but I dont know 
that they will occur in real life (alignment probs when padding occurs 
at the end of structures could cause incorrect results, potentially).

That checkin means you dont have to switch back to dynamic binds by 
commenting out the line in DCOracle2.py which does a setStatic call on 
the binding array.