[freeside-devel] Does it work with Oracle?

[ivan]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:28:10AM +0530, Indira Virk wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am abt to plunge into deploying and using Freeside, and require few
> clarifications.
> 
> One of the features mentioned on the website is: Uses Perl's DBI allowing
> use of almost any database backend to store data. We currently recommend
> PostgreSQL or MySQL. Does 'almost any' include Oracle? I have observed from
> the mailing lists that there has been some problem regarding the column
> names and data display problem wrt Freeside not using Oracle-compatible DBI
> syntax (uses the return value from $sth->execute as a number of rows).

This is no longer the case in 1.3.0:

http://www.sisd.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/freeside/FS/FS/Record.pm?rev=1.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

> Is that all?  Can that be easily rectified?
> 
> I would like to know whether anyone has successfully implemented Freeside
> with an Oracle backend.

Not that I know of.

I recommend PostgreSQL.

-- 
meow
_ivan