Posted by Mladen Gogala on 01/22/06 18:08

I recently reported a bug about problem with OCI8 driver
and here is a little exchange that I had with a developer
with nickname "tony2001". Obviously, persuading people to
check the report is rather hard. Next time I encounter a bug,
I will not report it. The bug number is:36119

22 Jan 2:39am CET] gogala at sbcglobal dot net

Description:
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If I link PHP 5.1.2 with
--disable-pdo --with-oci8=$ORACLE_HOME

I am not able to connect. If I relink with
--with-oci8=$ORACLE_HOME --with-pdo-oci

the server starts working. Here is the error code:

href='function.ocilogon'>function.ocilogon</a>]: OCIEnvNlsCreate()
failed.
There is something wrong with your system - please check that
ORACLE_HOME
is set and points to the right directory in
/usr/local/PHP/adodb/drivers/adodb-oci8.inc.php on line 228, referer:

Reproduce code:
---------------
Any connect to ORACLE

Actual result:
--------------
[Thu Jan 12 19:26:11 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) PHP/5.1.2
configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Jan 12 19:26:20 2006]
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: ocilogon() [<a
href='function.ocilogon'>function.ocilogon</a>]: OCIEnvNlsCreate()
failed.
There is something wrong with your system - please check that
ORACLE_HOME
is set and points to the right directory in
/usr/local/PHP/adodb/drivers/adodb-oci8.inc.php on line 228, referer:
http://localhost/dba/dba_helper.php

[22 Jan 2:44am CET] tony2001@php.net

OCI8 and PDO are totally different and presence of PDO doesn't affect
OCI8 in any way.
If you get the error message you get - "there is something wrong with
your system - please check that ORACLE_HOME is set and points to the
right directory".

[22 Jan 6:08am CET] gogala at sbcglobal dot net

Tony, I have 17 years of experience as an Oracle DBA. Such a
mistake is highly unlikely for me, even if the problem wasn't reproduced
independently. Unfortunately, Andy Hassall has also
reproduced it. See the recent thread called "5.1.2 woes" on
comp.lang.php

[22 Jan 2:02pm CET] tony2001@php.net

>Tony, I have 17 years of experience as an Oracle DBA
And you think that causes the problem?
Or why do you mention this?

I *KNOW* that PDO and OCI8 are independent modules, so this is
definitely your misconfiguration.

[22 Jan 5:03pm CET] gogala at sbcglobal dot net

Well, I know that this is a bug, but I am not going to pick
a fight. Thanks for not checking. Next time I find a bug, I will not
report it. I will publish the contents of this little
exchange on the usenet. God bless.



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