Some environment variables can be defined in order to activate specific features They must have one of the following values (case insensitive) for being enabled : "TRUE", "1"

• "OCILIB_WORKAROUND_UTF16_COLUMN_NAME": This variable enables an experimental workaround for the Oracle bug 9838993:
  • When executing select statements, OCILIB queries column names against the Oracle Client
  • Unicode builds of OCILIB initialize Oracle client into UTF16 mode
  • In such environments, a memory leak occurs when statements are re-executed multiple times followed by retrieving the resultset
  • This workaround retrieves column names using direct access to undocumented Oracle structures instead of using buggy Oracle calls
  • As Oracle undocumented structures may change upon versions, this workaround is provided as-is in case the Oracle bug represents an real issue for applications
  • This workaround has been tested with 32bit and 64bit Oracle 12g clients and Unicode OCILIB builds