[363] in Project_DB
Fwd: Oracle 8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Aug 31 10:42:31 1998
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:42:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: project-db@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:29:49 -0400
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Oracle 8
Cc: pakulat@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU
Hi Bill,
Just as a "head's up", I'm working with the database services
folks to find out what Oracle 8 issues I/S will be facing.
I was just taking a quick look at the OCI header files on
an Alpha (OSF/1), and while it looks to me like Oracle has
included included the necessary bits for backwards compatibility,
there are a *lot* of changes in those headers. If the Project
Database still makes use of OCI, at some point you may want
to have somebody see what is involved in re-building the
Project Database code under Oracle 8 on Solaris to see what
might break.
As a further FYI, even without migrating to Oracle 8, the
Project Database server might break under Oracle 7.x on the
newer Solaris boxes we are buying; some of the datatypes and
buffer sizes used by OCI are different on 64-bit processors.
Of course, of the Project Database no longer depends on
OCI, you can ignore all of this and achieve true peace
of mind. :-)
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= Reid M. Pinchback =
= I/T Delivery, MIT =
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= Email: reidmp@mit.edu =
= URL: http://web.mit.edu/reidmp/www/home.html =
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