But there is no pure Perl driver for Oracle, AFAIK.
You are absolutely correct, because there are no Oracle drivers outside of C/C++ and Java. So, there aren't any pure Haskell drivers, either.
Installing DBD::Oracle is probably the hardest single module install I've ever done, with the possible exception of DBD::mysql.
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