[cx-oracle-users] RE: Re: Choosing client libraries

[Amaury F. d'A. <ama...@gm...>]

Anthony wrote:
> Ok. It sounds like a bunch of grunt work but nothing particularly
> difficult. There is the necessity of "copying" the Oracle header files

Not necessarily. You may require that compiling a cx_Oracle distribution
needs the latest Oracle header files for the module to contain all features=
.

Then, when installed on another machine, the module will silently
disable some features if they do not match the Oracle version.

> and there is the question of performance as well. Any thoughts on
> those?

Well, if the code is carefully written and uses inline functions,
the overhead could be reduced to a simple check on a static
variable.

--
Amaury