On Fri, 26 May 2000, William Deegan wrote:
> Does this new release mean I connot use Oracle as the backing store?
Were you using it before? If so, it was purely accidental that it
worked. I am working on an Oracle backing store right now, which i might
even finish today, but I didn't include it in 1.50 because I didn't
consider feature parity with 1.03.
Doesn't 1.03 fail with truncated longs? If not, can you send me a
description of your table?
-jwb
>
> -Bill
>
> > I am pleased to announce that Apache::Session version 1.50 has been
> > released. This is a major update from the previous version.
> >
> > Notable updates include:
> >
> > *Support for Postgres as a backing store
> > *Support for Berkeley DB as a backing store
> > *Support for serialization into ASCII instead of binary data
> > *Pluggable ID generation policies and serialization schemes
> > *Database backing stores can now use existing database connections
> > *Apache::Session::Flex lets you choose modules at runtime
> > *Full transactional consistency is now available with all backing stores
> >
> > Subtle incompatibilities:
> >
> > *Default IDs are now 32 characters instead of 16
> > *Apache::Session::DBI is gone, in favor of specific MySQL and Postgres
> > modules.
> > *Semaphores are no longer used by default on any platform.
> >
> > You can get the new module at
> > http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/Apache-Session-1.50.tar.gz
> >
> > Best,
> > Jeffrey
>
>
