All,
I am pleased to announce that DBD::SQLite (Self Contained RDBMS in a Perl DBI
Driver) version 1.26_05 has been released on CPAN (by Adam Kennedy).
http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/DBD-SQLite-1.26_05/
This developer release bundles the brand-new SQLite version 3.6.19, which adds
support for enforcing SQL foreign keys. See http://sqlite.org/foreignkeys.html
for the details of the foreign key support that SQLite now has.
Also be sure to look at the section http://sqlite.org/foreignkeys.html#fk_enable
, because you have to enable a pragma on each connect to use the foreign keys
feature; it isn't yet on by default for backwards compatibility purposes.
As I imagine many of you have been pining away for SQLite to support this
feature for a long while, you'll want to dig in right away.
TESTING NEEDED!
Please bash the hell out of the latest DBD::SQLite and report any outstanding
bugs on RT. Test your dependent or compatible projects with it, which includes
any DBMS-wrapping or object persistence modules, and applications.
And especially try actually using foreign keys with SQLite.
As the official release announcement says: "This release has been extensively
tested (we still have 100% branch test coverage). [The SQLite developers]
consider this release to be production ready. Nevertheless, testing can only
prove the presence of bugs, not their absence. So if you encounter problems,
please let us know."
See also http://www.sqlite.org/changes.html for a list of everything else that
changed in SQLite itself over the last few months.
If you want in to DBD::SQLite development, then join the following email/IRC
forums which MST created (the mailing list, I am administrating):
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbd-sqlite
#dbd-sqlite on irc.perl.org
And the canonical version control is at:
http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/DBD-SQLite/
Patches welcome. Ideas welcome. Testing welcome. Whining to /dev/null.
If you feel that a bug you find is in SQLite itself rather than the Perl DBI
driver for it, the main users email forum for SQLite in general is at:
http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
... where you can report it as an appropriate list post (the SQLite issue
tracking system is no longer updateable by the public; posting in the list can
cause an update there by a registered SQLite developer).
Please do not reply to me directly with your responses. Instead send them to
the forums or file with RT as is appropriate.
Thank you. -- Darren Duncan
P.S. DBD::SQLite has at least 1 known bug, also in version 1.25, with regard to
full-text search (FTS3); there is an included new failing test, which currently
is set to skip so the CPAN testers don't issue fails, but the issue behind it
should hopefully be fixed before the next DBD::SQLite release. We decided that
shipping DBD::SQLite now with the skipping test was preferable to waiting for
that fix so you could get the new foreign keys feature the soonest.
