Author: byterock Date: Tue Jun 24 09:56:49 2008 New Revision: 11452 Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm
Log: quick update to the pod for case sensitivity Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes ============================================================================== --- dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes (original) +++ dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes Tue Jun 24 09:56:49 2008 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ =head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.22(svn rev xxxx) 2008 + Added comment to POD on case sensitivity of ORACLE environment variables suggested by Gerhard Lausser Added patch to fix a number of harmless, but annoying, GCC warnings from Eric Simon Added (finally) ora_verbose for DBD only tracking from John Scoles and thanks to H.Merijn Brand Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=32396 from John Scoles @@ -6,7 +7,7 @@ Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=36069: Problem with synonym from John Scoles Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=28811 ORA_CHAR(s) not returning correct length in functions and procedures from John Scoles Makefile.PL now working without flags for Linux 11.1.0.6 instant client and regular client from John Scoles, Andy Sautins, H.Merijn Brand, Nathan Vonnahme and Karun Dutt - Fixed how persistant lob fetch works now uses callback correctly, from John Scoles & Darren Kipp + Fixed how persistent lob fetch works now uses callback correctly, from John Scoles & Darren Kipp =head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.21(svn rev 11067) 11th April 2008 Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm ============================================================================== --- dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm (original) +++ dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm Tue Jun 24 09:56:49 2008 @@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ This is a topic which often causes problems. Mainly due to Oracle's many and sometimes complex ways of specifying and connecting to databases. (James Taylor and Lane Sharman have contributed much of the text in -this section.) +this section.) =head2 Connecting without environment variables or tnsnames.ora file @@ -1041,6 +1041,10 @@ what is going on. (It's unfortunate that TWO_TASK couldn't be renamed, since it makes no sense to the end user, and doesn't have the ORACLE prefix). +Also remember that depending on the operating system you are using +the differing "ORACLE" environment variables may be case sensitive, so if you are not connecting +as you should doubble check the case of both the variable and its value. + =head2 Connection Examples Using DBD::Oracle First, how to connect to a local database I<without> using a Listener:
