Ernst-Georg Schmid: oracle_fdw: 'cannot use' means 'don't even touch'

The README for the oracle_fdw clearly says: "You cannot use LDAP functionality both in PostgreSQL and in Oracle, period."

Actually this means: "DO NOT EVEN TOUCH!"

I found this out yesterday when tracking down frequent sigsevs in one of our PostgreSQL servers.

The Oracle instant client was set up with NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH=(TNSNAMES, LDAP) in sqlnet.ora.

Even when the connect string used in the FDW is in the //<server>:<port>/<service> form, i.e. no Oracle name resolution is required, just allowing LDAP in sqlnet.ora will kill your server.