OCI 1.2.5 or upgrading Oracle Instant Client

OCI 1.2.5 was released recently and has an impressive list of fixes. One of the most important items for me was the support for RPM installs and 64-bit RPMs.

What that means in plain English: You can now grab RPMs from Oracle website for Oracle Instant Client. Install them as you normally would and then do pear install pecl/oci8 and just say instantclient and be done with it.

I actually tested this today on my development box at work. I did it as an upgrade though. The whole process now takes less than 2 minutes and I'll describe it here.

NOTE: I assume you already have Oracle Instant Client setup and configured. If not then see Part 1 (http://www.gena01.com/forum/gena01_blog/installing_oracle_instant_client_and_making_it_work_with_php-t184.0.html) and Part 2 (http://www.gena01.com/forum/gena01_blog/installing_oracle_instant_client_11g_and_pecl_oci8-t193.0.html).

1. Do pear upgrade pecl/oci8.
2. You will be prompted with an option to provide instant client lib directory:
a. enter 1 - NOTE: Don't select autodetect as this never worked for me.
b. enter instantclient.
c. press Enter to continue.
3. At this point it should combine and install the oci8.so

I noticed one weird thing on my box. I got a segmentation fault at the end of the install process. I restarted apache (service httpd restart) and things seem to work fine.

Gena01

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