After over 18 months of "stability" it gives me great pleasure to
say that the monstrous hunk of rock that is DBD::Oracle is rolling
forward once again...
file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.13.tar.gz
size: 194630 bytes
md5: bcb1a887ac8f5da415a78fe7abb012b5
Special thanks are due to Jeff Urlwin who helped me greatly by
handling a bunch of the outstanding issues.
=head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.13 14th March 2003
Fixed null user issue when using OS Authentication thanks to Christopher R. Baker
Fixed precision for Raw types in oci7.c thanks to J.D. Laub.
Fixed LOB code for table names containing $ thanks to Wayne Volkmuth.
Fixed LOB synonym handling thanks to John Milton.
Fixed dbms_output_get to be immune to ora_ph_type changes thanks to Michael Fox.
Fixed to now not treat SUCCESS_WITH_INFO (eg ORA-28011) on connect as an error.
Updated table_info to decode SYS and SYSTEM to prepend 'SYSTEM ' thanks to Olga
Voronina
Updated table_info and added get_info, foreign_key_info thanks to Steffen Goeldner.
Added that ShowErrorStatement is now enabled by default.
Added ParamValues attribute so ShowErrorStatement includes bind_param values.
Added experimental utf8 support thanks to Stefan Eissing. See README.utf8
Added BFILE support thanks to David Hull.
Added :ora_session_modes export tag for ORA_SYSDBA ORA_SYSOPER constants,
added ORA_STRING and ORA_CHARZ to :ora_types export tag and added docs
for ora_ph_type attribute and other doc fixes, thanks to Michael A Chase.
Added t/cursor.t tests thanks to Jeffrey Horn.
Added ability to share connections between threads via ora_dbh_share
attribute, thanks to Gerald Richter.
Added ability to connect() via 'external process context', for embedding
Perl DBI into Oracle server, thanks to Jeff Horwitz.
Documentation changes:
Updated README.hpux thanks to Lincoln Baxter and Jay Strauss.
Documented ora_parse_lang, ora_auto_lob, and ora_check_sql prepare()
method attributes thanks to Michael A Chase.
Configuration and build related changes:
Added Win32 support on systems with multiple Oracle Homes thanks To Jeff Urlwin.
Fixed prototype for constant() thanks to Sreeji K Das.
Fixed warning in Oraperl.pm with recent perl versions thanks to Ilya V.Rachkov.
Fixed handling of shell backticks in make output during build rule discovery.
Fixed Win32 build using gcc thanks to Chris R. Donnelly and Michael A Chase.
Help HPUX configs by removing -l:libcl.a from liblist, thanks to Frans Postma.
Assorted improvements to Makefile.PL thanks to Michael A Chase and Stephen Clouse.
Updated tests and Oraperl.pm to not use old style connect (deprecated in DBI 1.33).
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There are still many outstanding issues to address (I've over 100
separate email threads saved).
I'll get to them in time, but if you've anything urgent you want in,
it's *much* more likely to happen if you sent me a *tested patch*.
Anything else will probably just be added to the queue.
Enjoy!
Tim.
