Almost 4 months after the previous release candidate, and 10 months after the last full release, here's another release candidate:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBD-Oracle-1.15-rc2-20040112.tar.gz This one has a little more momentum behind it. =head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.15 12th January 2004 NOTE: DBD::Oracle now requires DBI version 1.28 (June 2002) or later. NOTE: This is probably the last release that will support being built with the old Oracle 7 OCI interface. 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_perl (http://search.cpan.org/author/JHORWITZ/extproc_perl/) Fixed Oraperl handling of ora_errno and ora_errstr thanks to Martin Busik. Fixed PRECISION for "NUMBER" to be 126 not 0 thanks to Steffen Goeldner. Fixed bind_param_inout() for placeholders not assigned to in PL/SQL. Changed bind_param_inout for CHAR types to no longer use a minimum length of 28 characters. Warning: this change may break code that doesn't pass bind_param_inout() a length value large enough for the returned string. (The minimum length was not documented and should not have been relied upon. This change currently only applies to the CHAR type but may extended to all string types in a later release.) Changed type_info_all() to return the same type info as Oracle's own ODBC driver does, thanks to Andy Hassall for the data. The types include LOBs but not the new TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL types. 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 TIMESTAMP [WITH [LOCAL] TIME ZONE]] support thanks to Stephen Clouse and Robert Wyrick. Added INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH, INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND support. 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 needs build time option thanks to Steffen Goeldner 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. Added auto setting of $dbh->{Username} if not given to connect i.e. using Oracle OS authentication and connecting as "/" by selecting SYS_CONTEXT('userenv','session_user') from the db thanks to Eric Lenio and Andy Hassall. Updated README.macosx thanks to Danial Pearce and William Goedicke. Updated README.help for UnixWare thanks to Earle Nietzel. Updated PL/SQL cursor examples, plus Oracle.ex/README and curref.pl examples thanks to Michael A Chase. Updated PL/SQL example setup thanks to Bob Kline. =cut I'd be grateful for reports of any testing you can do on this. I would especially like to fix any build-time problems. I'm aware there are still problems on Solaris with Oracle 9.2 related to 32/64 bit lib directories. I don't have Oracle 9.2 so I can't test it myself. Patches, or just detailed problem reports, for that or any other build problems are most welcome. Thank you! Tim. p.s. I still have a big pile of 'open issues' but getting a new release out the door is more important than trying to deal with all of them right now.
