Support for the Oracle Database?

[JonOfUs]

Hello,

today I learned that the Oracle Database is supported by Nextcloud after all. There are only a few mentions of this in the documentation, especially nothing in the installation instructions. It seems like this database type is only available in enterprise subscriptions of Nextcloud. So OCI being in the CI matrix may have been intended and useful.

Now to the question of this discussion: should we add support for the Oracle Database 11g?

I removed the OCI tests because subscription integration tests always failed in this DB (probably) due to DateTime formats (#73 (comment)). So we would need to change this format or add a special case only for OCI databases in order for gpoddersync to work with this database type.

Is this adjustment worth the trouble, or is it even necessary? I don't know anything about enterprise subscriptions, so I don't know how relevant this is.

A possible workaround could be to put into the app metadata that only MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL are supported, there is an option for database dependencies under dependencies/database.

[thrillfall]

I say dump it. If there are Oracle users they can provide a fix having enterprise resources :-)