After more than four months (in which I've moved home and family
to Ireland) I'm very pleased to be able to make a release at last.
It is test a beta/test release though, as there are quite a few
changes that need testing and some loose ends that need tying before
a full release. I hope to release 1.21 before the end of January.
That's more likely to happen if you help test this release for me.
(Then I can focus on the rather neglected DBD::Oracle and Oracle::OCI.)
file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.201.tar.gz
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Changes in DBI 1.20_1, 10th January 2002
NOTE: This is a TEST RELEASE, not for production use.
: Please DO TEST THIS RELEASE, especially new features,
: and report any problems as soon as possible.
Things to be done before the full release (expected soon) include:
: Need to finalise get_info behaviour and docs
: Need to finalize quote_identifier behaviour and docs
: Need to add quote_identifier call to tables() and docs.
: Need to expand subclassing section in docs
: Need to add DbTypeSubclass (ala DBIx::AnyDBD) docs
: Need to update 'recent changes' section in docs
: Need to update DBI::Shell to v11.3 from Tom Lowery
: Need to clean up 'unused variable' warnings
Fixed DBD::Proxy support for AutoCommit thanks to Jochen Wiedmann.
Fixed DBI::ProxyServer bind_param(_inout) handing thanks to Oleg Mechtcheriakov.
Fixed DBI::ProxyServer fetch loop thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed fetchrow_hashref to assign columns to the hash left-to-right
so later fields with the same name overwrite earlier ones
as per DBI < 1.15, thanks to Kay Roepke.
Changed ping() so it no longer triggers RaiseError/PrintError.
Changed connect() to not call $class->install_driver unless needed.
Added ISO SQL/CLI & ODBCv3 data type definitions thanks to Steffen Goeldner.
Removed the definition of SQL_BIT data type constant as the value is
inconsistent between standards (ODBC=-7, SQL/CLI=14).
Added $dbh->column_info(...) thanks to Steffen Goeldner.
Added $dbh->foreign_key_info(...) thanks to Steffen Goeldner.
Added $dbh->quote_identifier(...) insipred by Simon Oliver.
Added $h->{HandleError} = sub { ... } alternative to RaiseError/PrintError.
Added $h->{TraceLevel} = N attribute to set/get trace level of handle
thus can set trace level via an (eg externally specified) DSN
using the embedded attribute syntax:
$dsn = 'dbi:DB2(PrintError=1,TraceLevel=2):dbname';
Plus, you can also now do: local($h->{TraceLevel}) = N;
(but that leaks a little memory in some versions of perl).
Added some call tree information to trace output if trace level >= 3
eg " <- prepare= undef at DBI.pm line 990 via t/examp.t line 371"
With thanks to Graham Barr for the stack walking code.
Documentation changes:
Added selectrow_arrayref & selectrow_hashref docs thanks to Doug Wilson.
Added 'Standards Reference Information' section to docs to gather
together all references to relevant on-line standards.
Added link to poop.sourceforge.net into the docs thanks to Dave Rolsky.
Added 'Subclassing the DBI' docs thanks to Stephen Clouse, and
then changed some of them to reflect the new approach to subclassing.
Added stronger wording to description of $h->{private_*} attributes.
Enjoy!
Tim.
