DBD::Oracle & array interface

I've been posting here for quite a while, with one question: When will
DBD::Oracle start supporting array interface. I obviously deserve no
answer, although I don't exactly know why. I need that feature and badly.
Why is such a sin to ask for schedule and plans. As for "why", I
understand that. Oracle's array interface doesn't fit into DBI array calls
philosophy. Oracle will fail the whole array for a single record and the
only way to get that status array back is to cheat and not use array
interface. It does seem mighty strange, however, that DBI doesn't support
Oracle's array interface, although Oracle was the first database to have
one at all. So, I have two questions:
1) Is it planned?
2) If it is, when?
I'm using Perl for years and I'd hate to abandon Perl because of a silly
thing like this. This feature is so vital, however, that if support for
the array interface is not planned or is planned for a time far, far away,
I will have to do so. Without the array interface, I cannot even consider
using Perl instead of SQL Loader, as speed difference is simply too great
to consider thing like that. Unfortunately, many of my Perl scripts load
data.

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