On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Martin J. Evans <martin.ev...@easysoft.com> wrote: > On 11/02/11 18:43, John Scoles wrote: >> >> Here is the latest and greatest DBD::Oracle for your programming pleasure. >> >> You can find the Zip file here >> >> <a >> href="http://www.pythian.com/news/wp-content/uploads/DBD-Oracle-1.28_RC_1.zip";>DBD-Oracle-1.28-RC1.zip</A> >> >> This is a long overdue maintenance release that fixes a large number of >> bug and issues which are detailed below in the Changes. >> >> Don't worry there are some new goodies in this release namely I have added >> in 4 new >> server side tracing/debugging attributes >> >> <strong>ora_driver_name</strong> >> For 11g and later you can now set the name of the driver layer using OCI. >> PERL, PERL5, ApachePerl so on. Names starting with "ORA" are reserved. You >> can enter up to 8 characters. If none is enter then this will default to >> DBDOxxxx where xxxx is the current version number. This value can be >> retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO or >> GV$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO >> >> <strong>ora_client_info</strong> >> When passed in on the connection attributes it can specify any info you >> want >> onto the session up t0 64 bytes. This value can be >> retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION view. >> >> <strong>ora_client_identifier</strong> >> When passed in on the connection attributes it specifies the user >> identifier >> in the session handle. Most useful for web app as it can pass in the >> session >> user name which might be different than the connection user name. Can be >> up >> to 64 bytes long do not to include the password for security reasons and >> the >> first character of the identifier should not be ':'. This value can be >> retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION view. >> >> <strong>ora_action</strong> >> You can set this value to anything you want up to 32byes.This value can be >> retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION view. >> >> We have also added in the connection attribute >> >> <strong>ora_connect_with_default_signals</strong> >> >> Whit this attribute you can localize the $SIG{} so this should solve the >> problems with $SIG{} events that sometimes occur when using DBD::Oracle >> >> >> Finally I would like to thank Martin Evans for volunteering to be another >> co-maintainer of DBD::Oracle >> >> >> >> Cheers >> John Scoles >> >> >> Changes >> Added connection attribute 'ora_connect_with_default_signals' that will >> localize Perl's $SIG{INT} handler from Brian Phillips and T. Bunce >> Fix in execute_array to stop possible endless loop when using a fetch sub >> by Martin J. Evans >> Adapted Martin J. Evans' ODBC 70execute_array.t into t/26exe_array.t by >> John Scoles >> Fix for execute_array to bring it up to spec. by Martin J. Evans and John >> Scoles >> Marked ProC, Oraperl.pm, ora_explain.pl, ora_context, >> ora_use_proc_connection and ora_parse_lang as deprecated to be removed in >> 1.29 >> Added in 4 new server side debug/trace attributes, ora_driver_name, >> ora_client_info, ora_session_user and ora_action on the connection handle >> from John Scoles >> Cleaned up the pod a little by John Scoles >> Fix for function name length, Some function names are over 31char long >> which may cause problems for some OS/Compilers (VMS IA64 box.) from Jakob >> Snoer >> Fix for OCIPing in case where a 10 client tries to ping a <10 DB from >> Tim Oertel >> Fix for DBD-Oracle stored proc with array bug where second call array size >> is unchanged from Tim Oertel >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=63332: Spelling error in POD from jonasbn >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=62152: t/28array_bind.t and t/31lob.t may >> call plan() twice and others do not fail on not connect from John Scoles >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=61511 ORA-00942 when inserting into a table >> with a LOB column over a synonym on HP-UX from Kris Lemaire >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42842 Test 31lob fails with 64-bit Instant >> Client by John Scoles >> Fix for support for objects on big endian platforms from Charles Jardine, >> John R Pierce >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=61225 Windows install (Stawberry Perl) fails >> on long path names from David Tulloh >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=rt64524 Memory Leak when Oracle connection >> fails by Martin J. Evans >> Added all the missing ora_drcp values to dbh private_attribute_info by >> Martin J. Evans >> Removed a load of attributes from sth private_attribute_info which are not >> handle attributes but attributes to bind_param/prepare by Martin J. Evans >> Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=64244 - don't bail out, skip tests when >> we cannot connect by Martin J. Evans and John Scoles >> Added DBI to PREREQ_PM in Makefile.PL by Martin J. Evans >> Added build_requires in Makefile.PL by Martin J. Evans >> Added workaround for ExtUtils::MakeMaker problems by Martin J. Evans >> Added LICENSE to Makefile.PL by Martin J. Evans >> >> Cheers John Scoles > > Thanks John. > > I haven't had a chance to play with this release candidate properly until > today - sorry. > > On the platforms I've tested on so far (a few Linuxes) I am getting 100% > test success. > I will upgrade our test system to this RC later to see if it finds any > problems. > > The only problems I've found so far: > > o the META.yml has not been generated properly (e.g., it is missing > build_required, configure_requires etc > > o the version is still 1.27 instead of 1.28 - perhaps you intended that. >
Yep at this stage it is just a simple dump to a zip. Funny I did create the Dir with make disdir I guess that does not generate the META file. I think any one we send up to CPAN gets deleted then recreated by the CPAN process not 100% sure on that thouhg > Martin > -- > Martin J. Evans > Easysoft Limited > http://www.easysoft.com > -- The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral.
