Christopher Jones has posted a quick update for PHP and Oracle users out there about an update to the latest Oracle PECL package.

Quick heads-up that Antony Dovgal has released the oci8 1.2.3 patch to PECL. Edin Kadribasic has published the corresponding Windows binaries on pecl4win. See the changenote for, well - changes.

Updates in this new release include:

• a fix when fetching NULL values using oci_bind_array_by_name
• correcting when the type argument of oci_define_by_name() is ignored
• oci_bind_array_by_name doesn't work on Solaris 64bit
• issue in php_oci_statement_fetch with more than one piecewise column