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Revision history for DBD::Oracle
{{$NEXT}}
[BUG FIXES]
Fix truncation error on ROWIDs from an Index Organized table as they are
not a fixed length. Code now allows up to a size of 2000.
(GH#31, Martin J. Evans)
[ENHANCEMENT]
Connection informational messages like "ORA-28002: the password will
expire" were lost. Thanks to J.D. Laub.
Add new path to find 64 bit Oracle client on MAC OSX - (GH#20, Martin J. Evans)
Ignore constraints which are not enabled in primary/foreign key_info
(GH#23, Martin J. Evans)
* 25-08-2018
[ENHANCEMENT]
Implemented implicit result sets from stored procedures using
OCIStmtGetNextResult call available since Oracle 12.2c
(Jurgen Hildebrand)
1.75_2 2014-11-19
[ENHANCEMENT]
Try and set -l when the build would have failed (H.Merijn Brand)
1.75_1 2014-11-17
[DOCUMENTATION]
Change mentions of READMEs in Makefile.PL to troubleshooting guides.
(GH#17, reported by Ken Williams)
[BUG FIXES]
Fix GH#15 and GH#21 (the same problem). Previous change for
RT91698 broke other things in output parameters.
1.74 2014-04-24
- Promote to stable.
1.73_01 2014-04-23
- Tweak fix for RT-88185. (GH#14, Martin J. Evans)
1.73_00 2014-04-23
- Reverts current fix for RT-88185, as it causes breakage. (GH#14)
1.72 2014-04-14
- promote 1.71_00 to stable.
1.71_00 2014-03-31
- Recognizes __CYGWIN64__. (RT88709, reported by Witold Petriczek)
- CHOOSE hint is deprecated. (RT91217, reported by Andy Bucksch,
fix by Martin J Evans)
- Set UTF8 flag per-connection. (RT88185, reported by Heinrich Mislik, patch by Martin
J. Evans)
- Add a CONTRIBUTING.mkd file. (GH#2)
- Add SELinux trick. (RT#87003, patch submitted by Mike Doherty)
1.70 2014-02-12
- promote 1.69_02 to stable.
1.69_02 2014-01-19
[IMPROVEMENTS]
- The DSN 'dbi:Oracle:sid=foo' is now an alias for 'dbi:Oracle:foo'.
(RT#91775, Yanick Champoux, requested by David Wheeler)
- Support for ORA_SYSBACKUP, ORA_SYSDG and ORA_SYSKM. (RT#91473,
Kris Lemaire)
[BUG FIXES]
- OCI_THREADED setting had been accidentally removed, causing potential
crashes when using threads. (RT#92229, Martin J. Evans, reported
by Detlef Lütticke)
- When using fetch*_hashref the values are decoded but
not the keys so if you have unicode column names they were not
returned correctly. (RT#92134, Martin J. Evans, reported by
Marcel Montes)
1.69_01 2014-01-14
[BUG FIXES]
- Fix RT91698. If you bound an output parameter to a scalar and
repeatedly called execute the memory allocated in your bound
scalar could increase each time. (Martin J. Evans)
1.68 2013-11-25
- promote 1.67_00 to stable.
1.67_00 2013-11-05
[BUG FIXES]
- Fix RT88135. Add statistics_info support (patch by Steffen Goeldner)
- Fix RT89491. Add RULE hint (patch by Steffen Goeldner)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- POD typos (RT#88285, RT#88284, Gregor Herrman).
- Grooming of Hpux troubleshooting pod (GH#7, Martin J. Evans,
Yanick Champoux)
1.66 2013-08-23
- promote 1.65_00 to stable.
1.65_00 2013-07-29
[BUG FIXES]
- Fix RT85886. The TYPE passed to bind_col is supposed to be sticky
and it wasn't. Attributes passed to bind_col could be lost later if
bind_col is called again without attributes. Both of these occur
when fetchall_arrayref is called with a slice (Martin J. Evans).
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Fix a bunch of typos. [GH#5, David Steinbrunner]
1.64 2013-05-22
- promote 1.63_00 to stable.
1.63_00 2013-05-03
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- DBD-Oracle: Use of uninitialized value $user_only in uc [RT#84657]
(Steffen Goeldner)
[BUG FIXES]
- Make 50cursor.t Oracle8-friendly. (RT#84660, patch by Steffen Goeldner)
- Makefile.PL's use of ACL tweaked for Suse Enterprise 11 SP2
(RT#84530, patch by Alfred Nathaniel)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Bogus 227 directory no longer required for MacOS. (GH#1, patch
by theory)
1.62 2013-04-30
- promote 1.61_00 to official release
1.61_00 2013-04-15
[BUG FIXES]
- Adjust the privs needed for the DROP/CREATE table test. [GH#35]
(Joe Crotty)
- Fixed RT84170 - when using scrollable cursors and you've done a
positioned fetch and then keep fetching until the end of the
result-set calls to fetch never return undef and you keep getting
the last row forever. Also added test case to the 51scroll.t test
(Martin J. Evans).
1.60 2013-04-01
- Move github repository to github.com/pythian/DBD-Oracle.
1.58 2013-03-05
- promote 1.57_00 to official release
1.57_00 2013-02-07
[BUG FIXES]
- fix RT46628 - bind_param_inout ORA_RSET causes MSWin32 access
violation and RT82663 - Errors if a returned SYS_REFCURSOR is not
opened (Martin J. Evans)
- Fix RT82663. If a procedure/function returns a SYS_REFCURSOR which
was never opened DBD::Oracle magics a DBI statement handle into
existence and attempts to describe it (which fails). This change
examines a returned SYS_REFCURSOR and if it it is initialised but
not executed does not create a DBI statement handle and returns
undef instead. So now if you have a procedure/function which
returns a SYS_REFCURSOR and never open it you'll get undef back
instead of a useless statement handle. Extended 50cursor.t test
to check the above fix. (Martin J. Evans)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Update Lion instructions for 64-bit Instant Client. (GH#37, patch by
theory)
1.56 2013-01-08
- fix t/26exe_array.t in the case of no db connection (RT82506,
reported by Peter Rabbitson)
1.54 2013-01-03
- promote 1.53_00 to official release
1.53_00 2012-12-18
[BUG FIXES]
- Fix RT69350 - 31lob.t was using $lob after destroying its parent $sth
(Rob Davies)
- Fix memory leak in execute_array (John Scoles, Pierre-Alain Blanc)
- Fix RT80349 - The error message in execute_for_fetch when a row fails
can contain the wrong error count. Thanks to Steffen Goeldner for
RT and patch.
- Fix RT80375 - no exception when execute_for_fetch fails and
ArrayTupleStatus is not specified. Also the tuple count calculation
resulted in an undefined warning. Thanks to Steffen Goeldner for
RT and patch.
- Fix RT80487. Skip XMLType tests if Oracle less than V9. Thanks to
Steffen Goeldner for RT and patch.
- Fix RT80486 for 31lob_extended.t. In old old Oracle8,
SYS_REFCURSOR is not defined. Instead of CREATE/DROP PROCEDURE,
use anonymous block. Thanks to Steffen Goeldner for RT and patch.
- Fix bug in 39attr.t which could fail if using an Oracle Client >
11 but not >= 11.2 (Martin J. Evans)
- ora_server_version was not documented.
- Fix RT80566. 70meta.t test fails with Oracle 8 because
ALL_TAB_COLUMNS.CHAR_LENGTH is new in Oracle 9. Use DATA_LENGTH
instead on pre-9 versions. Thanks to Steffen Goeldner for RT and
patch.
- Fix RT80704. 51scroll.t test checks scrollable cursors but assumes
all Oracles support them (only 9 and above). Thanks to Steffen
Goeldner for RT and patch.
- Fix RT81067. 58object.t has some subtype tests and subtypes were
introduced in Oracle 9. Skip if < Oracle 9. Thanks to Steffen
Goeldner for RT and patch.
- Fix RT81317. 34pres_lobs.t uses the Data Interface for Persistent
LOBs which is new in Oracle 9. Skip if < Oracle 9. Thanks to
Steffen Goeldner for RT and patch.
[MISCELLANEOUS]
- The original 26exe_array test was replaced some time ago with a
copy of the one from DBD::ODBC. Since then I've fixed issues in
the DBD::ODBC one and added more tests (like tests for some RTs
above). To make keeping them in synch easier I've modularised the
tests. Hence new ExecuteArray.pm. (Martin J. Evans)
- simple code clean up, replacing 3 uses of safemalloc with Newz
(John Scoles)
- Add DBI as a configure prereq for the META* files (thanks to Joe Crotty)
- New FAQ entry on Solaris and setting linker library path
(Martin J. Evans)
- Removed ineffective commit in 34pres_lobs.t (Martin J. Evans)
- Remove dead README link in Win32 documentation. (pointed out by Alexandr
Ciornii, RT#82040)
- Changed any use of if SvUPGRADE to remove the if test as per email
from Dave Mitchell and posting at
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-12/msg00424.html
(Martin J. Evans)
1.52 2012-10-19
- promote 1.51_00 to official release
1.51_00 2012-09-28
[BUG FIXES]
- fix serious memory corruption in TAF support (Martin J. Evans)
- fix finding client in situation where client and server both
installed but different architectures (patch by H.Merijn Brand)
- fix memory leak in TAF handling - the TAF function was leaked
(Martin J. Evans)
- fix issue with taf_function being set to a scalar which goes
out of scope before the callback is made (Martin J. Evans)
- fix RT46739 if a connection breaks the environment handle is
not thrown away (Martin J. Evans)
- ora_driver_name was not defaulted to the correct DBD::Oracle
version (Martin J. Evans)
- ora_driver_name, ora_client_info, ora_client_identifier,
ora_action and ora_oci_success_warn were set twice (if specified)
on connect as they were not deleted from the connect attributes
once handled. Code now leaves the setting to the later STORE DBI
calls (Martin J. Evans)
- fixed some compiler warnings for %lf (Martin J. Evans)
- fixed RT78700 - column_info reports wrong size for char semantic
char type columns (Douglas Wilson).
[CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR]
- ora_taf and ora_taf_sleep were redundant and have been removed.
To enable/disable TAF simply set ora_taf_function and if you
want to sleep do it in your callback (Martin J. Evans)
- ora_taf_function can now be a code reference as well as a string
(Martin J. Evans)
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- the ora_can_taf method was virtually useless since you can only
call it after connecting and to enable TAF you had to do it in the
connect call. Now you can enable and disable TAF at any time by
simply setting or clearing the ora_taf_function (see RT78811)
(Martin J. Evans)
- the ora_taf_function is now passed a third argument of the
connection handle (Martin J. Evans)
- RT78987 - removed Oraperl.pm and oraperl.ph; these files will be
available in a separate distribution named "Oraperl" (David Perry)
[MISCELLANEOUS]
- hide dr, db and st packages from PAUSE (Martin J. Evans)
- added a few more simple TAF tests (Martin J. Evans)
1.50 2012-08-15
- RT78965 - Remove Oraperl tests (which were forcing a require on Oraperl)
1.48 2012-08-09
- promote 1.47_00 to official release
1.47_00 2012-07-11
[BUG FIXES]
- fixed redeclaration of $len in 31lob.t - (Martin J, Evans)
- RT55028 - stop segfaulting when attempting to read empty lobs
(Martin J. Evans)
- RT69059 - Despite OCIPing being documented as added in 10.2 AIX
does not seem to have it in 10.2 leading to undefined symbol -
Martin J. Evans
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Promoted the troubleshooting for the different architectures to
POD documents, for easier/prettier access.
- Added a troubleshooting entry for RT71819 - bound output
parameters may be returned in the wrong order (Martin J. Evans)
1.46 2012-07-11
- promote 1.45_00 to official release
1.45_00 2012-06-21
[CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR]
- In future versions of DBD::Oracle ora_verbose will be changed
so that it is simply a switch to turn DBI's DBD tracing on or off.
A true value will turn it on and a false value will turn it off.
DBI's "DBD" tracing was not available when ora_verbose was created
and ora_verbose adds an additional test to every trace test.
[BUG FIXES]
- Fixed RT76695 - offset passed to ora_fetch_scroll should not affect
normal fetches (Martin J. Evans)
- Fixed RT76410 - fetch after fetch absolute always returns
the same row (Martin J. Evans);
- Fixed RT75721 - does not build with Oracle 9.2 (Martin J. Evans)
- Fixed RT71343 - Oracle 9i does not have OCI_ATTR_TAF_ENABLED
or OCI_ATTR_RESERVED_15/16 so cannot build (Martin J. Evans)
- skip 24implicit_utf8.t if chr set is not UTF-8 (Martin J. Evans)
- Fixed RT76269 - ora_taf_sleep was documented as taf_sleep by
accident. There was no way to stop the TAF reconnect attempts.
If you want to try another connect attempt in your taf handler you
now need to return OCI_FO_RETRY from it. (Martin J. Evans)
[MISCELLANEOUS]
- minor change to confusing debug output for input parameters
(Martin J. Evans)
- RT72989 - add note to trouble shooting guide re this RT and
Module::Runtime (Martin J. Evans)
1.44 2012-04-23
- promote 1.43_00 to official release
1.43_00 2012-03-30
[BUG FIXES]
- Applied patch from Rafael Kitover (Caelum) to column_info to handle
DEFAULT columns greater in length than the DBI default of 80. The
DEFAULT column is a long and it is a PITA to have to set
LongReadLen which you can only do on a connection handle in
DBD::Oracle. The default maximum size is now 1Mb; above that you
will still have to set LongReadLen (Martin J. Evans)
- Fixed 70meta and rt74753-utf8-encoded to not die if you cannot
connect to Oracle or you cannot install from CPAN if you have not
set up a valid Oracle connection.
- Fixed 75163. Bfile lobs were not being opened before fetching if
ora_auto_lobs was disabled (Martin J. Evans).
Note: this has a minor impact on non bfile lobs when ora_auto_lobs
is not in force as an additional call to OCILobFileIsOpen will be
made.
- Removed all DBIS usage fixing and speeding up threaded
Perls (Martin J. Evans).
- Minor fix to avoid use of uninitialised variable in 31lob.t (Martin J. Evans)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- clarification of when StrictlyTyped/DiscardString can be used and
LongReadLen (Martin J. Evans)
- Documented the 3rd type of placeholder and rewrote the existing
pod for placeholders (Martin J. Evans).
1.42 2012-03-13
- skip rt74753-utf8-encoded.t if db is not unicode
1.40 2012-03-08
- promote 1.39_00 to official release
1.39_00 2012-02-24
[BUG FIXES]
- TAF supports now conditional to presence of OCI_ATTR_TAF_ENABLED
[RT73798]
- detect broken Win32::TieRegistry (patch by Rafael Kitover (Caelum))
[RT74544]
- PL/SQL out values were not utf8 encoded [RT74753]
(Steve Baldwin + Martin J. Evans)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Mention the release of Oracle Instant Client 64 bit which does not work
on Lion. (Martin J. Evans)
- fix DBD::Oracle::GetInfo blurb (patch by Julián Moreno Patiño) [rt74000]
- fix typos. (patch by Julián Moreno Patiño) [rt73999]
- add troubleshoot doc and diag for error with bequeather. [rt75263]
[OTHERS]
- change the shebang line of examples to the more modern '/usr/bin/env perl'
[RT74001]
1.38 2012-01-13
- promote 1.37_00 to official release
1.37_00 2011-12-30
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- added SYSASM session mode. [RT651211] (patch from
Anthony DeRobertis, reported by Julián Moreno Patiño)
[BUG FIXES]
- applied patch from Charles Jardine avoiding undefined values
warnings in ora_server_version when the database is not open
[RT72623] (Martin J. Evans)
- TNS_ADMIN was ignored [RT73456]
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Document possible problem with
ora_connect_with_default_signals and connect_cached
[RT72716] (Martin J. Evans)
- Fix documentation for 'ora_fetch_scroll()'
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.36 (6-12-2011)
- promote 1.35_00 to official release
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.35_00 (18-11-2011)
[BUG FIXES]
- if bind_col is called with a TYPE but no bind attributes like
StrictlyTyped or DiscardString are set DBD::Oracle still attempts
to call sql_type_cast which is pointless (Martin J. Evans)
- if bind_col is called with a TYPE other than SQL_NUMERIC,
SQL_INTEGER or SQL_DOUBLE and bind attributes like StrictlyTyped or
DiscardString a warning was not issued that the type is unsupported
and no data was returned (Martin J. Evans)
- Fix test so it works with perl compiled with -Duselongdouble [RT71852]
- Apply patch from Charles Jardine for better building against a full
Oracle 11 install [RT72463] (Martin J. Evans)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- Added notes to bind_col documenting the fact that setting a TYPE
does not affect how the column is bound in Oracle, only what
happens after the column data is retrieved (Martin J. Evans)
- fix typo (thanks to Julián Moreno Patiño) [RT72038]
- shuffle POD around to improve documentation flow [RT72252]
- major tidying up of the connect() documentation. (by Gwen Shapira)
- Moved LONG examples out of POD and into examples/
[OTHER]
- Commented out some functions in oci8.c which were not used to
reduce the size of the driver a little (Martin J. Evans)
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.34 (31-10-2011)
- promote 1.33_00 to official release
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.33_00 (18-10-2011)
[BUG FIXES]
- COLUMN_SIZE of VARCHAR2 returns size in chars, not bytes. [RT#13865]
(reported by Stefano and Laurent Dami)
[DOCUMENTATION]
- add mention of the github mirror of the subversion repository
- add 'resources' info to META.yml
- fixed broken link to Oracle DRCP doc in POD (John Scoles)
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.32 (16-10-2011)
- promote 1.31_00 to official release
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.31_00
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- Makefile.PL's options are now documented
- move 'explain' to '/examples' directory
[BUG FIXES]
- support development release versions in GetInfo (Martin J. Evans)
- don't gag diag() on the tests by default
- SKIP condition in 10general.t was reversed (reported by Alois) [RT#46761]
- Check for LD_LIBRARY_PATH_(32|64) as well for solaris [RT#46761]
- convert a symbolically linked ORACLE_HOME to an absolute path
(patch by H.Merijn Brand, applied by Martin J. Evans) [rt70785]
[DOCUMENTATION]
- announce that Oraperl will be removed from the dist by v1.38.
- add Mac OS instructions for Lion (patch by David Wheeler) [rt71109]
- fixed minor typo in POD (John Scoles)
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.30
[DOCUMENTATION]
- add warning about RT#69350 in documentation
Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.29_1
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- added support for TAF callback (John Scoles)
- now trap OCIServerAttach errors (patch by Marc Fielding, applied
by Martin J. Evans) [rt68958]
- added installation notes for MAC Snow Leopard (Martin J. Evans)
- added '/etc' to the search paths for tnsnames.ora (Martin J. Evans, Jay Senseman)
[rt67942]
- removed support for ProcC connections (John Scoles)
- added ora_db_shutdown and ora_db_startup private functions (Steffen Goeldner)
- added Test::Simple 0.90 to build_requires as we use note etc (Martin J. Evans)
[BUG FIXES]
- fixed bug in bind_col which was broken in 1.27 and stopped anyone using
a string as a column number. e.g., '1' (Martin J. Evans, Alexander
Foken)
- removed obsolete oparse_lang (John Scoles)
- fixed some compiler warnings in dbdimp.c and oci8.c (Martin J. Evans)
- added missing OCIServerRelease to oci.def (Martin J. Evans) [rt68172]
- fixed up the POD based on DBD::Pg (John Scoles)
- POD review rephrasing, fixing typos and spelling mistakes up to
"Placeholder Binding Attributes" (Martin J. Evans)
- rt 56824 - add META_MERGE mentioning DBI required version (Martin J. Evans)
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.28 (svn rev 14765)
Changed 26exe_array.t so it is compatible with older version of Test::More by John Scoles
A fix from Charles Jardine for 58object.t to stop an error on some 64 bit systems
A few quick changes from H. Merijn Brand to fix some compiler warings and a fix for Oracle 9 clients
Added connection attribute 'ora_connect_with_default_signals' that will localize Perl's $SIG{INT} handler from Brian Phillips and T. Bunce
Fix in execute_array to stop possible endless loop when using a fetch sub by Martin J. Evans
Adapted Martin J. Evans' ODBC 70execute_array.t into t/26exe_array.t by John Scoles
Fix for execute_array to bring it up to spec. by Martin J. Evans and John Scoles
Marked ProC, Oraperl.pm, ora_explain.pl, ora_context, ora_use_proc_connection and ora_parse_lang as deprecated to be removed in 1.29
Added in 4 new server side debug/trace attributes, ora_driver_name, ora_client_info, ora_session_user and ora_action on the connection handle from John Scoles
Cleaned up the pod a little by John Scoles
Fix for function name length, Some function names are over 31char long which may cause problems for some OS/Compilers (VMS IA64 box.) from Jakob Snoer
Fix for OCIPing in case where a 10 client tries to ping a <10 DB from Tim Oertel
Fix for DBD-Oracle stored proc with array bug where second call array size is unchanged from Tim Oertel
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=63332: Spelling error in POD from jonasbn
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=62152: t/28array_bind.t and t/31lob.t may call plan() twice and others do not fail on not connect from John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=61511 ORA-00942 when inserting into a table with a LOB column over a synonym on HP-UX from Kris Lemaire
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42842 Test 31lob fails with 64-bit Instant Client by John Scoles
Fix for support for objects on big endian platforms from Charles Jardine, John R Pierce
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=61225 Windows install (Stawberry Perl) fails on long path names from David Tulloh
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=rt64524 Memory Leak when Oracle connection fails by Martin J. Evans
Added all the missing ora_drcp values to dbh private_attribute_info by Martin J. Evans
Removed a load of attributes from sth private_attribute_info which are not handle attributes but attributes to bind_param/prepare by Martin J. Evans
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=64244 - don't bail out, skip tests when we cannot connect by Martin J. Evans and John Scoles
Added DBI to PREREQ_PM in Makefile.PL by Martin J. Evans
Added build_requires in Makefile.PL by Martin J. Evans
Added workaround for ExtUtils::MakeMaker problems by Martin J. Evans
Added LICENSE to Makefile.PL by Martin J. Evans
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.27 (svn rev 14583)
This version removes 'PERL_POLLUTE' and adds in PL_ where required so it will be fully compatible with Perl 5.13
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.26 (svn rev 14411)
Manual re-release of 1.25 with changes to file permissions.
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.25(svn rev 14411)
Added support for the OCIPing by John Scoles
Spell checked the pod (the first time in a while me thinks) updated the todo By John Scoles
Added support for DCRP (Database Resident Connection Pooling) by John Scoles with Luben Karavelov
Fix for odd error with Ping from Tom Payerle
Removed the NEW_OCI_INIT compile directive and the deprecated OCIInitialize calls
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=57256 : Double free problem in dbdimp.c by John Scoles
Fix for invalid format in trace of OCILobLocatorIsInit_log_stat reported by Martin Evans Fixed by John Scoles
Fix for very odd UNKNOWN OCI STATUS 1041 (OCILobFreeTemporary) on disconnect reported by John Parker and Bob Mcgowan fixed by John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=55445: get_info(28) SQL_IDENTIFIER_CASE seems to return the wrong value from Martin J Evans and a bunch of re jigging from John Scoles
Patch for PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small from Scott T. Hildreth
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=51594 type_info and type_info_all miss vital information from John Scoles
Added ora_lob_is_init function by John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=55031 Ubuntu Server Building with Oracle XE under 32-bit from Brian Candler
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=56810 bug with multiple nested cursor from John Scoles
Fix for bug found only on Big-Endian hardware reported by Timothy Everett and others from Charles Jardine
Fix for memory leak when using prepared_cached and lobs reported by Mark Bobak and Martin Evans found and fixed by John Scoles and a test from Martin Evans
Added more entries to the Readmes from John Scoles
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.24_01(svn rev 14060)
This release has been prepared specifically for the 'Debian' http://www.debian.org project. It contains no changes
to functionality or usage. The following has been changed
Fixed some formatting and typos in Pod from Julián Patiño
The Copyright terms for ora_explain have changed and now read as follows:
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.24(svn rev 13793)
Extended precision for OCIDateTimeToText to 6 instead of 0 for embedded types from John Scoles
Extended support of Oracle Embedded objects from Charles Jardine
Added support for RowsInCache as RO and RowCacheSize as a set-able value on the Statement Handle. So it would comply with DBI spec By John Scoles with thanks to Martin J. Evans
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 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 #=46438 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 hangs 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
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.23(svn rev 12724)
Fix from rt.cpan.org ticket #=44788 bool in_lite should be char in_literal
Fix for UTF8 and blobs by John Scoles with Milo van der Leij
Fix for some warnings and one bug in ocitrace.h from Charles Jardine
Fix in case there may be a bug in 11 where the OCI_ATTR_DATA_SIZE my return 0 which should never happen, John Scoles
Fix on the Makefile.PL for a possible sql bug in IC from Martin Evans
Added a change from a suggestion from Martin Evans for making ref cursors faster.
Added rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42328 ora_objects attribute for extended embedded objects support from Tomas Pokorny
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42328 user defined types from different schema in describe_obj from Tomas Pokorny
Added a README for sun suggested by Jim McCullars
Clean up of white space and formatting to 4 tabs from John Scoles
Fix for GCC 4.3 warnings from Eric Simon
Standardized the dbd_verbose levels so they are all 3 and over. from John Scoles
Added private statement functions ora_stmt_type_name and ora_stmt_type from John Scoles
Update to POD from Chris Underhill
Added README.win64.txt with content from Alex Buttery
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=21920 Bug with Oracle DBD for Mac OS X Instant Client From boingolover
Added a few more constants to get rid of magic numbers from John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=38267 Inserts/Updates to BLOB's via synonyms fails from John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39603 build problem and fix missing functions in oci.def from Zoltán Sebestyén
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39374 Makefile.PL: error when reducing echo messages from make from Tippa
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39232 binding large XMLTYPE fails on 64-bit perl from Jeff Klein
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=38749 Warning of a NULL column in an aggregate function also added ora_oci_success_warn to display silent OCI warnings from John Scoles
Patch for UTF8 check on execute_array from David Mansfield and a little by John Scoles
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.22(svn rev 11618) 1st Aug 2008
Patch to remove compiler warnings from H.Merijn Brand
Patch to Makfile for 64bit boxes from Alex Laslavic
Added OCILobGetLength to lob functions from Milo van der Leij
Updated readmes to state the test user has to have create, call and drop a procedure privileges by John Scoles suggested by Gisle Aas
Patch to Makfile to prevent the installation of the lib/DBD/mkta.pl fil from Gisle Aas
Added new Test 31lob_extended.t for use of LOBs when returned via stored procedures with bind_param_inout from Martin Evans
Update to connection part of POD from John Scoles
Fix to test suite to bring it up to standard from Martin Evans
Fix for memory hemorrhage in bind_param_inout_array found by Ricky Egeland, Fix by John Scoles
Fix for a typo in oracle.xs from Milo van der Leij
Fix for bugs on SPs with Lobs reported by Martin Evans, Fix by J Scoles
Changed the way Ping works rather than using prepare and execute it now makes a single round trip call to DB by John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=37501 fail HP-UX Itanium 11.31 makefile also added the OS and version to the output of the Makefile.PL for easier debugging. from John Scoles and Rich Roemer
Added a number of internal functions for decoding OCI debug values from John Scoles
Fix for hpux 11.23 linker error unrecognized argument on the Makefile from someone on CPAN forum
Added fetch by piece for lobs, fixed persistent lobs and expansed thier usage for LONG and LONG RAW and changed to pod to reflect the changes from John Scoles
Added comment to POD on case sensitivity of ORACLE environment variables suggested by Gerhard Lausser
Added patch to fix a number of harmless, but annoying, GCC warnings from Eric Simon
Added (finally) ora_verbose for DBD only tracking from John Scoles and thanks to H.Merijn Brand
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=32396 from John Scoles
Fix for memory leak that snuck into 1.21 from John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=36069: Problem with synonym from John Scoles
Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=28811 ORA_CHAR(s) not returning correct length in functions and procedures from John Scoles
Makefile.PL now working without flags for Linux 11.1.0.6 instant client and regular client from John Scoles, Andy Sautins, H.Merijn Brand, Nathan Vonnahme and Karun Dutt
Fixed how persistent lob fetch works now uses callback correctly, from John Scoles & Darren Kipp
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.21(svn rev 11067) 11th April 2008
Added Notes to README.win32.txt on installing Instant Client 11.1.0.6.0 from John Scoles
Added the oci_typecode_name method to get the name rather than just the number of an OCI_TYPECODE from John Scoles
Fixed a unreported bug with Embedded Objects from John Scoles
Fixes for #34621 & 33791 from RT cpan
Added patch to allow faster fetch from REF CURSORs from Biswadeep Chowdhury
Updated the Todo file for next version from John Scoles
Added support for the 10.2 Data Interface for Persistent LOBs by John Scoles
Changed the way pre-fetching is done by John Scoles
Added support for Scrollable cursors from John Scoles
Changed the max size of cache_rows to a sb4 rather than a int and or a ub4 from John Scoles
Added support for Lobs in select of OCI Embedded Objects from John Scoles with a big thankyou to Paul Weiss
Fixed for embedded object in object from Paul Weiss
Added support for direct insert of large XML data into XMLType fields from Hendrik Fuss & John Scoles
Fixed memory leak (not releasing Temp Lob with OCILobFreeTemporary) when created for a bind from John Scoles
Added support for bind_param_inout_array for use with execute_array from John Scoles
Added enhancement for Embedded Objects handling from Paul G. Weiss
Fixed to Makefile.PL let it read makefiles from other makes from Alexander V Alekseev
Updated POD to tell users to Avoid Using "SQL Call" from Charles Jardine
Updated POD to account for rt.cpan.org #30910: "DBD-Oracle crashes when trying to read empty LOB" from John Scoles
Added DBD::Oracle impdata/threads patch from Jeffrey Klein
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.20(svn rev 10517) 11th January 2008
Fixed lob test so it skips the one test that relies on it if v$ session. from Rafael Kitover
Fixed // with /* */ in dbdimp.c from John Scoles
Fixed for execute_for_fetch in Oracle.pm returning 0 instead of 0E0. from Martin J. Evans
Added README.64bit.txt that contains help for compiling on 64 bit boxes from John Scoles
Fixed typo in Oracle.pm from Tom R.
Added support for ora_charset, ora_ncharset from Stephen J. Smith
Fixed Makefile.PL for better handling of empty array in File::Find::find from Slaven Rezic
Fixed references to README.clients.txt in Makefile.PL from John Scoles
Added PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT for better multi-threaded support from John Scoles
Changed required version of DBI to be 1.51 from John Scoles
Fixed bug in 31lob.t from John Scoles
Added notes on installing Instantclient .rpm to README.Lunix.txt
Added support for OCI array bind from Alexander V Alekseev
Added support for select of OCI Embedded Objects from John Scoles
Added a tip in README.64bit.txt from cartmanltd
Added fix to Makefile.PL for finding SQLplus for Ubuntu Server (but should work for others) from Martin J. Evans
Added fix to Makefile.PL for Gentoo AMD64 from Tom R.
Added fix to dbdimp.c for speed up of Null-Operations from Andreas Behal
Added fix to dbdimp.c for SQLCS_NCHAR index use on varchar2s from Peter J. Holzer
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.19 (svn rev 8002) 3rd November 2006
Fixed execute_array to comply with DBI standard from Martin J. Evans, Xho Jingleheimerschmidt and others
Fixed execute_array so it will not throw a Perl warning on undef values in Tuples from John Scoles
Fixed execute_array so it will take the ora_array_chunk_size DB handle attribute
Fixed some typos in code and READMEs from John Scoles
Fixed a few other little bugs dealing with compatibility with Oracle 8
Changes to README from Karl Auer
Suppress warning in 26exe_array.t from Philip Garrett
Added support for array context aware execute_for_fetch from Martin J. Evans
Fixed Makefile.PL for an incompatibility with ExtUtils::MM_Unix v1.50 (invoked byExtUtils::MakeMaker) from Dennis McRitchie
Updated POD to reflect that OCI after 9.2 no longer strips trialing spaces
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.18 (svn rev 6697)
Added support for native Oracle Array interface thanks Kristian Nielsen
Added suppot for LOB Locators from Jeffrey Klein.
Updated README.win32.txt for Oracle 10xe and new Visual C++ version
Updated README.lunix.txt for work-araound for UTF8 bug
Fixed a number of compile warings
please enjoy.
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 3726)
Updated README.win32.txt fixed some typos
Fixed expanded support for Lobs support from Jeffrey Klein
Added notes on expanded support for Lobs to Oracle.pm
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 3725)
Added expanded support for Lobs from Jeffrey Klein
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 2487) 7th February 2006
NOTE: With this release of DBD::Oracle pythian.com (http://www.pythian.com)
are taking on the role of lead maintainer - with my support and gratitude.
John Scoles at pythian.com is now the man in the hot seat for support and
maintenance!
Fixed automatic csform setting for some UTF8 cases and for Oracle 8.0
Fixed truncation error on fetch into UTF8 charset thanks to Honza Pazdziora.
Fixed INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND thanks to Honza Pazdziora.
Fixed unicode tests for cygwin thanks to Andy Hassall.
Fixed undef warnings when connecting with undef $user.
Fixed undef warnings from $dbh->get_info(18);
Fixed LOB streaming example thanks to Pablo Zorzoli.
Added support for nested cursors in select lists thanks to Charles Jardine.
Added "Trailing Spaces" section to docs thanks to Michael A Chase.
Added support for binary floats/doubles thanks to Dennis Box.
Added INSTANCE_NAME, SERVER and SERVICE_NAME as valid connect keywords
in the 'dbi:Oracle:x=y' short form of connecting without tnsnames.ora.
For example 'dbi:Oracle:host=localhost;service_name=xe;server=dedicated'
Added auto-detection of ORACLE_HOME in some configurations.
Changed "Binding Cursors" docs, clarifying examples thanks to Charles Jardine.
Changed tests to use ORACLE_DSN or DBI_DSN env vars if defined thanks to Jill Vogel.
Updated README.vms re logical name tables thanks to Jakob Snoer.
Removed README.utf8 since the topic was covered better in the main docs.
Updated README.hpux.txt and restructured examples thanks to H.Merijn Brand.
Updated README.aix thanks to Stephen de Vries and Nathan Vonnahme.
Updated README.macosx thanks to Stephen de Vries.
Renamed README.*'s to add .txt suffix to make life easier for some.
Changes to Makefile.PL:
Instant Client support thanks to Hilmar Lapp, John Scoles and others.
Improved HP-UX support thanks to H.Merijn Brand.
Avoid risk of sqlplus hanging thanks to Mark Dedlow.
More reliably use correct sqlplus thanks to Honza Pazdziora.
Improved build rule and Oracle header file detection.
Improved cygwin build thanks to Andy Hassall.
VMS logical name checks thanks to Jakob Snoer.
The Copyright terms for DBD::Oracle have been simplified and now read:
The DBD::Oracle module is free open source software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.16 (svn rev 515) 22nd October 2004
NOTE:
This release has major changes to Unicode support. See below.
It no longer supports the old Oracle 7 OCI interface.
It requires DBI >= 1.38 for some of the tests if using Perl 5.6.
It no longer supports Perl 5.5 or earlier.
Fixed placeholder names to be case insensitive thanks to Charles Jardine.
Fixed some LOB test problems with Oracle 8.1.7 by implementing ora_lob_append
with OCILobGetLength() and OCILobWrite(), instead of buggy OCILobWriteAppend(),
if the Oracle client version is < 9.0. Thanks to Jeff Urlwin.
Fixed handling of temporary LOBs thanks to Chris Donnelly.
Fixed memory leaks in auto LOB refetch code thanks to Dongqiang Bai.
Fixed reporting of length truncated in error message thanks to Jeff Urlwin.
Fixed column_info() to handle TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL datatypes
for Oracle >= 8 thanks to Stephen Clouse.
Fixed STORE to cache attribute value in handle cache.
Fixed seg fault returning LOB Locators reported by Raj Chandran.
Fixed binding to allow overloaded scalars (not for 'inout' params).
Fixed setting of $DBI::err to 0 triggering PrintWarn in DBI >= 1.41.
Fixed some edge cases in row cache sizing.
Fixed truncation error fetching very small numbers (1 ^ -130).
Fixed Oraperl to not enable PrintError or AutoCommit (broken since 1.13).
Changed some utf8 internals for LOBs.
Changed ORA_OCI constant from being just 7 or 8 to being a dualvar:
in numeric context returns the major.minor version number (8.1, 9.2 etc)
in string context it returns the full "major.minor.foo.bar" version string.
Changed some SUCCESS_WITH_INFO situtions to be treated as a "warning"
by setting $DBI::err to "0" (and so trigger PrintWarn in DBI >= 1.43)
eg "ORA-28011: the account will expire soon; change your password now"
and package compilation errors.
Added automatic support for UTF-8 for both NLS_LANG and NLS_NCHAR
Many thanks to Lincoln Baxter who did most of the hard work and testing
and to Jeff Urlwin and others who also helped out.
Perl 5.8.x and Oracle 9+ are highly recommended if you want to use Unicode.
See POD for more information and documentation.
Added support for "... RETURNING lob_locator_column INTO ?"
using $sth->bind_param_inout(2, \$loc, 0, {ora_type => ORA_BLOB});
Added bind_param() ora_csform, ora_csid, and ora_maxdata_size attributes.
Added bind_param() support for SQL_BLOB & SQL_CLOB thanks to Stephen Clouse.
Added $dbh->ora_can_unicode and $dbh->ora_nls_parameters thanks to Andy Hassall.
Documentation changes:
Corrected typo in ora_lob_read() example thanks to Johannes Wierny.
Corrected LOB example thanks to Sascha Pfalz and Thomas Upton.
Updated README.macosx thanks to Hilmar Lapp.
Updated README.hpux thanks to Gram Ludlow and Lincoln Baxter.
Added $dbh->reauthenticate($user,$pass) docs thanks to Andy Hassall.
Added $dbh->{ora_parse_error_offset} docs thanks to Andy Hassall.
Added gcc example to README.aix thanks to Adrian Terranova.
Added INSERT ... RETURNING ... example prompted by Steven Lembark.
Build Changes:
Fixed build32/build64 Makefile.PL bug spotted by Sean Kelly.
Fixed Oracle version detection on clients thanks to Marko Asplund.
Fixed Oracle 10 version detection on clients thanks to Andy Hassall.
Fixed HP-UX 64bit build issues thanks to Weiguo Sun.
Fixed VMS build issues thanks to Jakob Snoer.
Fixed suprious warning from Makefile.PL thanks to Marko Asplund.
Fixed compiler warnings thanks to Robert Baron.
Fixed oci.def for Cygwin by adding OCILobWriteAppend thanks to Gert-Jan Paulissen.
Changed to use ANSI C prototypes thanks to Steffen Goeldner.
Changed to not warn if ORACLE_HOME env var is not defined
as it's not used with Oracle's new 'Instant Client'.
Added Test::More as a prerequisite module.
Added many Unicode related tests thanks to Lincoln Baxter.
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.15 27th 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.
NOTE: This release will build for perl 5.5 only after some manual edits
which are detailed in README.help. Future releases may not build for 5.5.
Perl 5.5.3 is very old and and upgrading to at least 5.6.1 is recommended.
The DBI itself has required perl >= 5.6.0 since DBI 1.38, August 2003.
Fixed Makefile.PL for HPUX thanks to H.Merijn Brand & Sweth Chandramouli.
Fixed Makefile.PL for handling 32/64bit libs thanks to Lincoln Baxter,
Sean Kelly, Joel Van Boeckel and others. Oh the fun we've had.
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.
* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.14 27th March 2003
NOTE: OCI 7 and Oraperl will not be supported in future releases.
Implemented inserting NULL values into LOB fields using placeholders,
(sponsored by bayerwald-fenster.de thanks to Bernhard Donaubauer).