Shibboleth Developers

[giacomo tenaglia <>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:35:22AM -0500, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > - some data type adjustement to the storage creation sql:
> >   datetime -> date, text -> clob (this because I dont't know what can be
> >   the maximum size of the field "value" in table "texts", otherwise I'd
> >   used varchar);
> 
> The text type is used because those operations don't impose any size limits
> (beyond what's practical to store). Usually there's a "long text" type of
> some sort that isn't exactly a blob, but I'm not familiar with Oracle.
> 
> Did you have to change code at all?

No, only the sql related to the table creation.

> > - tell shibd to use the environment vars needed by Oracle Instant Client
> >   (ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN).
> 
> Are there any other mechanisms for supplying that information? If it could
> be done programmatically somehow, we could work out some kind of secondary
> plugin model.

As far as I know this is the only method. Anyway no problem, it's only a
matter of modify the init script.

giacomo

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