[gdal-dev] OGR-OCI (Oracle) Interface

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Peter J Halls <P.Halls at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>    I have an application that has need of the use of an Oracle 'collection'
> (aka array) as a column type.  The OGR OCI driver does not currently support
> this.  Would I be better pre-defining the table and then using SQL_Execute
> to manipulate the array column or to consider extending the OGR OCI driver
> to support this as an additional data type?  Is this data type likely to be
> of any interest to others, or am I a minority of one?

Peter,

OGR does have an array of reals, and array of ints data type,
so extending the OCI driver to support such a type would be
desirable.  If you can provide a patch, Ivan should be able to
review, test and apply it.

It is of course still a fairly specialized requirement.

Best regards,
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