On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:35:19 -0400, John Scoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The first Release Candidate for DBD::Oracle 1.21 is now ready for your 
> enjoyment.
> 
> You can find it here
> 
> http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.21-RC1.tar
> 
> Any and all testing would be greatly appreciated, but especially
> testing of building against Oracle Instant Client on a range of platforms.

How do I set DBI_DSN for OIC on Linux and Oracle on a remote box?

> So far in the with the Windows environment there is still one waring 
> 'OCIXMLTypeCreateFromSrc' as  'undefined'.  While annoying it does not 
> seem to cause any problems.
> 
> This is a another 'Big' release with a number of new features in no 
> particular order

no dbd_verbose?

> 1) Support for the Oracle 10.2 Data Interface for Persistent LOBs
>     (no more LOB Locaters hoary!!)
> 2) Support for Native Oracle Scrollable cursors
> 3) Support for bind_param_inout_array for use with execute_array
> 4) Support for Lobs in 'select' of Oracle Embedded Objects
> 5) support for direct insert of large XML character data into XMLType
>     fields
> 
> See the pod for details on these new features and of course a number of 
> bug fixes and a few pod enhancements just for fun.

-- 
H.Merijn Brand         Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x  on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11,
& 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.       http://qa.perl.org
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/            http://www.test-smoke.org
                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

Reply via email to