The first Release Candidate for DBD::Oracle 1.21 is now ready for your
enjoyment.
You can find it here
http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.21-RC1.tar
Any and all testing would be greatly appreciated, but especially
testing of building against Oracle Instant Client on a range of platforms.
So far in the with the Windows environment there is still one waring
'OCIXMLTypeCreateFromSrc' as 'undefined'. While annoying it does not
seem to cause any problems.
This is a another 'Big' release with a number of new features in no
particular order
1) Support for the Oracle 10.2 Data Interface for Persistent LOBs
(no more LOB Locaters hoary!!)
2) Support for Native Oracle Scrollable cursors
3) Support for bind_param_inout_array for use with execute_array
4) Support for Lobs in 'select' of Oracle Embedded Objects
5) support for direct insert of large XML character data into XMLType
fields
See the pod for details on these new features and of course a number of
bug fixes and a few pod enhancements just for fun.
Thanks!
John Scoles
