Is it an alpha or a beta? Who knows? Probably more alpha than beta but it it what it is and you're welcome to hit on it.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBD-Oracle-1.15-20030922beta.tar.gz =head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.14_90 22nd September 2003 (WARNING: beta release, awaiting 64bit lib and hpux fixups, calls itself 1.15) DBD::Oracle now requires DBI version 1.28 (June 2002) or later. Fixed Makefile.PL for HPUX thanks to H.Merijn Brand & Sweth Chandramouli. Fixed Makefile.PL error typo thanks to Martijn Koster. Fixed to build okay for Oracle 8.0.x and for older C compilers. Fixed minor omission in t/ph_test.t thanks to Tom Malaher. Fixed for extproc (http://search.cpan.org/author/JHORWITZ/extproc_perl/) Fixed Oraperl handling of ora_errno and ora_errstr thanks to Martin Busik. Added direct access to LOB Locators and major LOB Locator functions such as $sth->ora_lob_read(...), $sth->ora_lob_write(...) etc. This work was sponsored by Geospiza Inc. Added LOB Locator example docs thanks to Mark Dilger at Geospiza. Added warning for bad DSN string format thanks to Michael A Chase. Added /*+RULE*/ hint to metadata method SQL thanks to Andy Hassall. Added README.linux thanks to William Fishburne, Stephen Clouse and Brent LaVelle. Added README.aix thanks to KC, Mike Paladino and Rafael Caceres. Added connect example using OS authentication thanks to Bob Thomson. Added prepare("...", { ora_placeholders => 0 }) to disable placeholders. Added docs for returning a recordset (table/array) using Oracle >=9.0.1 via "FUNCTION foo RETURN type PIPELINED" thanks to Steve Baldwin. Added docs on ora_check_sql=>0 in prepare() to avoid server-side parses. Added support for sharing database connections with ProC/SQLLIB code via ora_use_proc_connection attribute, thanks to Kristian Nielsen. Added (restored) the error "possibly near <*> indicator" marker for syntax errors thanks to Jason Hitt and Andy Hassall. Added $dbh->{ora_parse_error_offset} attribute thanks to Andy Hassall. Updated README.macosx thanks to Danial Pearce and William Goedicke. =cut Enjoy! Tim.
