Anthony Tuininga

No, it just has be a number larger than 32767. Any number will do. :-) I don't like that myself so will see about making it a little less "disgusting"....

Thanks, @markfinn. This [documentation](https://oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/user_guide/round_trips.html) will tell you which ODPI-C calls may generate a round trip (and therefore should have the GIL released). I'll have this one fixed. I will also...

Hmm, the ODPI-C documentation I referenced suggests that dpiStmt_close() does *NOT* require a round-trip! That suggests there may be something more in play here. Do you have a sample that...

The nencoding is used for NVARCHAR2 and NCHAR columns as well as NCLOB values. The encoding is used for VARCHAR2 and CHAR columns as well as CLOB values -- and...

To answer your question directly: yes, cx_Oracle creates a string from the bytes received using `.decode("ISO-8859-1")`.

You are correct that ANYDATA is not currently supported. We don't have any current plans to support it, but will discuss this internally. Thanks for the suggestion!

No. cx_Oracle 8.3 requires a minimum of Python 3.6. Can you clarify the comparison? I thought you were just running cx_Oracle 8.3 on Python 3.10 on **both** RHEL 7.2 and...

So that would suggest that the OS is the culprit here (or some change in the OS that interacts badly with threaded Oracle clients). I don't know what that might...

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Looking at the implementation of ``cxoVar_free()`` the release of the GIL was intended to cover the possibility of a round trip occurring due to the...

I think you're referring to the message that SQL\*Plus prints when it executes a command. Is that correct? If so, that is something built-in to SQL\*Plus and not something that...