Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#10377 closed (fixed)

Improve database notes with respect to cx_Oracle 5.0 Unicode bug

Reported by: James Bennett Owned by: James Bennett
Component: Documentation Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Erin Kelly Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Since #9935 documented multiple people getting bit by a Unicode-corrupting bug in cx_Oracle 5.0, it might be a good idea to have the database notes section of the docs be a bit more clear on the fact that 5.0 should not be used (currently it says, misleadingly, "4.3.1 or later" in one place, while stating the requirement of 4.x further back in the paragraph.

The attached patch tries to make this clear, and also recommends cx_Oracle 5.0.1 which, per upstream announce, resolved the bug.

If one of our Oracle gurus (I'm cc'ing Ian on this) could verify the text (and maybe double-check against 5.0.1 to make sure it really did fix things), I'll commit this and do a backport into the 1.0.x docs as well.

Attachments (1)

cx_oracle-note.diff (1.1 KB ) - added by James Bennett 16 years ago.
Patch which breaks 5.0 warning out into a separate paragraph

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Change History (4)

by James Bennett, 16 years ago

Attachment: cx_oracle-note.diff added

Patch which breaks 5.0 warning out into a separate paragraph

comment:1 by Erin Kelly, 16 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

I've run the test suite against cx_Oracle 5.0.1 and found no problems, so I think we're good there. The text looks good to me, except that we also mention cx_Oracle versions in docs/topcis/install.txt; that should be updated as well.

comment:2 by James Bennett, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [9922]) Fixed #10377: Added clearer warning to database notes for cx_Oracle 5.0.

comment:3 by James Bennett, 16 years ago

(In [9923]) [1.0.X] Fixed #10377: Added clearer warning to database notes for cx_Oracle 5.0.

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