Attribute OCI_ATTR_PASSWORD is greater than the maximum allowable length of 1024

[ricky-rockstar]

For a source PHP build including these components:

• HTTPD 2.4.66
• PHP 8.5.5
• OCI8 3.4.1
• instantclient-basic-linux.x64-23.26.1.0.0

the following command:

./php -r "var_dump(oci_connect('B','A','127.0.0.1/TEST'));"

reliably fails to connect to

Oracle Database 23ai Free Release 23.0.0.0.0

with the following error message :

PHP Warning:  oci_connect(): ORA-24960: the attribute  OCI_ATTR_PASSWORD is greater than the maximum allowable length of 1024
Help: https://docs.oracle.com/error-help/db/ora-24960/ in Command line code on line 1

It is clear in the above command that the password is not too long. I know 100% that it is not the connect string as changing it to an incorrect value results in a different error.

[ricky-rockstar]

Repeating the exact same build, changing ONLY the instant client version to:

instantclient-basic-linux.x64-21.21.0.0.0dbru.zip

results in the command:

./php -r "var_dump(oci_connect('B','A','127.0.0.1/TEST'));"

now returning:

resource(4) of type (oci8 connection)

ie. it works!

So it is definitely a versioning incompatibility using the latest Oracle instant client 23.26.1.0.0