python-oracledb 2.3 is even smaller on Linux

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python-oracledb 2.3 has been released. My colleague @Veronica Dumitriu has posted the release announcement. There are lots of good improvements, such as support for the new VECTOR binary format that is available in Oracle Database 23.5.

One of the smaller (excuse the pun) enhancements is that the binary packages we put on PyPI for Linux are now stripped.

With the previous python-oracledb 2.2 release the install footprint was:

$ du -sh /home/cjones/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/oracledb/
49M /home/cjones/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/oracledb/

Now with python-oracledb 2.3 :

$ du -sh /home/cjones/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/oracledb/
7.2M /home/cjones/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/oracledb/

For you micro-optimizers, we know every byte counts!

This small change brings Linux into parity with macOS, where the install footprint remains around the 11M mark.

Installing or Upgrading python-oracledb

You can install or upgrade python-oracledb by running:

$ python -m pip install oracledb --upgrade

The pip options --proxy and --user may be useful in some environments. See python-oracledb Installation for details.

Python-oracledb References

Home page: oracle.github.io/python-oracledb/index.html

Installation instructions: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Documentation: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Release Notes: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html

Discussions: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/discussions

Issues: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/issues

Source Code Repository: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb