I'm currently connecting to an Oracle 9i database using DBI 1.3.9 and DBD::Oracle 1.14.

The DBD::Oracle documention states that the module provides connectivity to Oracle databases versions 7 and 8. Now, I know that DBD::Oracle 1.14 works with Oracle 9 because I'm using it but before I set my code live I want to know if it reliably works with Oracle 9 and if there's any compile/config tweaks I should be aware of.

My other query against the DBD::Oracle documentation (and I suppose therefore also the DBI documentation) is whether the ora_dbh_share connection attribute is safe to use with Oracle 9. Has anyone got any experience of this?

All this is running with Perl 5.8.2 compiled for threading on Solaris 8 for SPARC.

Many thanks,

== fx, Infinity is Colourless

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