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After over a year since the last major release it gives me great
pleasure to make this long overdue release. Should reach a CPAN near
you in a day or three.
Changes in DBD::Oracle 1.09 27th August 2001
Changed behaviour when OCIStmtExecute() returns OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO:
used to be treated as OCI_SUCCESS, now also sets $DBI::err/$DBI::errstr
and will therefore trigger RaiseError/PrintError if they are set.
Fixed ins/upd of LOBs in views thanks to Tom Moore.
Fixed reading of CLOBs in wide characters sets.
Fixed 'inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method DBD::Oracle::ORA_OCI' problem.
Workaround very long column names causing failure thanks to Martin Busik.
Added $dbh->primary_key_info() thanks to Steffen Goeldner.
Added $sth->cancel method thanks to Fredrik Sjoholm.
Added mention to registry to login failed hint thanks to Tim Callaghan.
Changed type_info_all VARCHAR2 max length to 4000 if using OCI8.
Removed use of perl global PL_no_modify to avoid linkage problems.
Old OCI7 API:
Fixed OCI7 memory leak from statement handles thanks to Bret Haeler.
Fixed OCI7 PRECISION for RAW data types thanks to J.D. Laub.
Fixed old OCI7 LONG buffer overwrite bug thanks to Bruce Templeton.
(I thought I'd done this before but perhaps now it's done right.)
Build:
Fixed default build to set LD_RUN_PATH at build time. Yeah.
Fixed parsing of Oracle's .mk files to handle += (appending values).
Fixed detection of 'OCI' dire for Win32 Oracle >=8.1 thanks to many.
Improved test for gcc in Makefile.PL thanks to Ian Kallen.
Improved build rule detection thanks to Jonathan Segal.
Don't merge text from Oracle's .mk into generated Makefile (use -f to reenable).
Fixed bad test in plsql.t so shouldn't give false negatives.
Added t/ph_type.t to test placeholder type issues thanks to James Jurach.
Retested for perl 5.4.4 for possibly the last time. You have been warned.
In future I'll only be testing on perl >= 5.5.3 and >=5.6.1.
Documentation:
Documented workaround for hang in "repetitive connect" test thanks to Alexi Lookin.
Short version: add bequeath_detach=yes to sqlnet.ora file.
Documented ora_oratab_orahome connect attribute (Oracle OCI 7 only).
Documented ora_module_name connect attribute thanks to Renzo Toma.
Added IRIX linking advice into README.help thanks to Dennis Box.
Added AIX core dump on disconnect advice into README.help.
Added docs on how Oracle determines the timezone thanks to Brad Howerter.
Added 'return cursor function' example to docs thanks to Michael A. Chase
Added more notes to README.java thanks to Peter Ludemann and Dave C.
Added more notes to README.login thanks to Geoff Young.
Most of the changes here relate to how the module is built, so if it builds
and tests okay for you then it'll probably be fine.
I would appreciate it if every DBD::Oracle user who can spare a few
minutes would download it and at least try to build and test it. If
it's okay then please just send me an empty message with a subject line
starting 'OK' and containing your Oracle version and platform details.
Thanks.
I still have a great many messages and patches filed away, but I don't
expect to make another release (other than bug fixes to this one) for a
couple of months.
I still hope to squeeze out an Oracle::OCI release before I move house.
Enjoy!
Tim.
