Description: ------------ Session mode is not currently supported by this abstraction driver. The "oci_connect" function is able to accept a 5th argument called $session_mode. Typically when it is required to connect to Oracle with privileged connections (i.e. "connect username as sysdba") one can pass the OCI_SYSDBA constant into the 5th argument of oci_connect(). Looking at the "oci8.php" script, the "oci_connect" functions are only passing a maximum of 4 argument parameters, therefore connecting with SYSDBA privileges are impossible via this DB abstraction driver. Request that support be added to this Oracle driver to allow the use of the 5th oci_connect() parameter.

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