On 16/02/11 12:00, John Scoles wrote:
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
I didn't think that happened. Apart from anything else, I type mine in manually
and don't have them generated.
When I run make tardist, I get the proper META.yml.
Do you want me to apply Merijn's Oracle 9 patches?
Martin
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Easysoft Limited
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