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diff --git a/src/src/lookups/oracle.c b/src/src/lookups/oracle.c
index 6cf9c0cec..5997f199d 100644
--- a/src/src/lookups/oracle.c
+++ b/src/src/lookups/oracle.c
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/lookups/oracle.c,v 1.3 2006/02/07 11:19:01 ph10 Exp $ */
+/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/lookups/oracle.c,v 1.6 2009/11/16 19:50:38 nm4 Exp $ */
 
 /*************************************************
 *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
 *************************************************/
 
-/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2006 */
+/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2009 */
 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
 
 /* Interface to an Oracle database. This code was originally supplied by
@@ -42,9 +42,14 @@ static void dummy(int x) { dummy(x-1); }
 #define MAX_SELECT_LIST_SIZE    32     /* maximum number of columns (not rows!) */
 
 /* Paul's comment on this was "change this to 512 for 64bit cpu", but I don't
-understand why. The Oracle manual just asks for 256 bytes. */
+understand why. The Oracle manual just asks for 256 bytes.
 
-#define HDA_SIZE 256
+That was years ago. Jin Choi suggested (March 2007) that this change should
+be made in the source, as at worst it wastes 256 bytes, and it saves people
+having to discover about this for themselves as more and more systems are
+64-bit. So I have changed 256 to 512. */
+
+#define HDA_SIZE 512
 
 /* Internal/external datatype codes */