Well here it is the long awaited 1.24 Beer version of DBD::ORACLE
http://sctvguide.ca/images/bd_two-four.jpg
You can find the release candidate here
http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.24-RC1.tar
Any and all testing will be most welcome!
Well a big load of stuff this time. A number of patches and bug fixes
plus with this RC I am introducing a two really big features
1) Full support for a multiple records from a single Fetch. This should
really speed things up as it cuts down on round trips to the
server
2) I have added ora_ncs_buff_mtpl or environment var ORA_DBD_NCS_BUFFER
so you can control the size of the byte buffer for lobs. So rather
than a default buffer 4* the Long_Read_Length or it is now 1.
This should free up great hoards of memory for your LOB Fetches
anyway here is a complete list
Added extended support for 64 bit clients in Makefile.PL from Ralph
Doncaster
Added extended nvarchar support from Jan Mach
Added support for the TYPE attribute on bind_col and the new DBI
bind_col attributes StrictlyTyped and DiscardString from Martin J. Evans
Added ora_ncs_buff_mtpl and environment var ORA_DBD_NCS_BUFFER so we
can control the size of the buffer when doing nclob reads
Fix for bug in for changes to row fetch buffer mostly lobs and
object fetches
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49741 Oracle.h has commented out params
in OCIXMLTypeCreateFromSrc from Kartik Thakore
Added from rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49436 Patch to add support for a few
Oracle data types to type_info_all from David Hull
Added from rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49435 Patch to add support for a few
Oracle data types to dbd_describe from David Hull
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49331 Bad code example in POD from John
Scoles
Added support for looking up OCI_DTYPE_PARAM Attributes
Added support for looking up csform values
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46763,46998 enhancement -Rowcache size
is now being properly implemented with row fetch buffer from John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46448 enhancement -Errors returned by
procedures are now unicode strings from Martin Evans, John Scoles and
Tim Bunce
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=47503 bugfix - using more than 1 LOB in
insert broken from APLA
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46613 bugfix - sig-abort on nested
objects with ora_objects=1 from TomasP
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46661 DBD::Oracle hungs when
insert/update with LOB and quoted table name from APLA
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46246 fetching from nested cursor
(returned from procedure) leads to application crash (abort) from John
Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46016 LOBs bound with ora_field broken
from RKITOVER
Fix for bug in 58object.t when test run as externally identified user
from Charles Jardine
