Announce: DBI-1.57 RC1 (aka DBI-1.56_91)

2007-06-13 Thread Tim Bunce
file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.56_91.tar.gz size: 489501 bytes md5: 0a690df4e157ce8de4862bc019d3c9f6 =head2 Changes in DBI 1.57 (svn rev 9639), 13th June 2007 Fixed XS versions of select*_*() methods to call execute() fetch() etc., with inner handle instead of outer. Fixed

Re: Clarification on DBI

2007-06-13 Thread Tim Bunce
I seem to recal that some old DBI and/or DBD::Oracle versions could loose the error message when connect fails. Tim. p.s. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is better than dbi-dev@perl.org for user issues like this. On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:18:08PM +0530, Shanmugam, Prabhu wrote: > Hi *, > > > > Long back

DBDs and PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT

2007-06-13 Thread John Scoles
Have been playing with making DBD::Oracle more compatible with threaded Perl. As suggested in the DBD Driver Writer's guide I added PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXTit before the #include in the Oracle file and dTHX; where required in the other files. Well here are the results; Calls that just use OCI, ie

Clarification on DBI

2007-06-13 Thread Shanmugam, Prabhu
Hi *, Long back I have installed ActivePerl-5.6.1.633-MSWin32-x86.exe and the supporting files DBI.PPD and DBD-Oracle.ppd in my windows machine. Today while executing the Perl scripts, I got the below strange error which I never got before DBI connect ('TEST_HOST,'TEST_UID',...) faile