Unable to Read Dates with Year `-4712`

1. What versions are you using?

oracledb.version: 2.4.1

platform.platform: Windows-10-10.0.17763-SP0
sys.maxsize > 2**32: True
platform.python_version: 3.11.9

Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production

2. Is it an error or a hang or a crash?

Error

3. What error(s) or behavior you are seeing?

$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\zzzz\test.py", line 14, in
print(result.fetchall())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\result.py", line 1317, in fetchall
return self._allrows()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\result.py", line 548, in _allrows
rows = self._fetchall_impl()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\cursor.py", line 2135, in _fetchall_impl
return self.cursor_strategy.fetchall(self, self.cursor)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\cursor.py", line 1140, in fetchall
self.handle_exception(result, dbapi_cursor, e)
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\cursor.py", line 1081, in handle_exception
result.connection._handle_dbapi_exception(
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 2358, in _handle_dbapi_exception
raise exc_info[1].with_traceback(exc_info[2])
File "C:\Users\zzzz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\cursor.py", line 1136, in fetchall
rows = dbapi_cursor.fetchall()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\wegscha\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\oracledb\cursor.py", line 779, in fetchall
row = fetch_next_row(self)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "src\oracledb\impl/base/cursor.pyx", line 548, in oracledb.base_impl.BaseCursorImpl.fetch_next_row
File "src\oracledb\impl/base/cursor.pyx", line 260, in oracledb.base_impl.BaseCursorImpl._create_row
File "src\oracledb\impl/thick/var.pyx", line 189, in oracledb.thick_impl.ThickVarImpl._get_scalar_value
File "src\oracledb\impl/thick/var.pyx", line 365, in oracledb.thick_impl.ThickVarImpl._transform_element_to_python
File "src\oracledb\impl/thick/utils.pyx", line 336, in oracledb.thick_impl._convert_to_python
File "datetime.pxd", line 298, in cpython.datetime.datetime_new
ValueError: year -4712 is out of range

4. Does your application call init_oracle_client()?

Yes.

    sqlalchemy.create_engine(self.sqlalchemy_url, thick_mode=True)

5. Include a runnable Python script that shows the problem.

import oracledb
import sqlalchemy
from sqlalchemy import text

sqlalchemy_url = f'oracle+oracledb://{config["username"]}:{config["password"]}@{config["host"]}:{config["port"]}/?service_name={config["service_name"]}'
engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine(sqlalchemy_url, thick_mode=True)

query = text("""
SELECT TO_DATE('-4712-01-01','SYYYY-MM-DD') FROM DUAL
""")

with engine.connect() as connection:
    result = connection.execute(query)
    print(result.fetchall())

Start with the runnable Python script and the TO_DATE('-4712-01-01','SYYYY-MM-DD') query, then follow the traceback through src/oracledb/impl/thick/var.pyx and src/oracledb/impl/thick/utils.pyx. Verify behavior in Thick mode against Oracle Database 19c; done means fetching this result no longer raises the reported ValueError.