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List:       dbi-users
Subject:    DBD-Oracle-1.28 Release Candidate 1
From:       209.217.100.70
Date:       2011-02-11 18:44:22
Message-ID: 20110211184524.19138.qmail () lists-nntp ! develooper ! com
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Here is the latest and greatest DBD::Oracle for your programming pleasure.

You can find the Zip file here

<a 
href="http://www.pythian.com/news/wp-content/uploads/DBD-Oracle-1.28_RC_1.zip">DBD-Oracle-1.28-RC1.zip</A>


This is a long overdue maintenance release  that fixes a large number of 
bug and issues which are detailed below in the Changes.

Don't worry there are some new goodies in this release namely I have 
added in 4 new
server side tracing/debugging attributes

<strong>ora_driver_name</strong>
For 11g and later you can now set the name of the driver layer using OCI.
PERL, PERL5, ApachePerl so on. Names starting with "ORA" are reserved. You
can enter up to 8 characters.  If none is enter then this will default to
DBDOxxxx where xxxx is the current version number. This value can be
retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO or
GV$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO

<strong>ora_client_info</strong>
When passed in on the connection attributes it can specify any info you want
onto the session up t0 64 bytes. This value can be
retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION view.

<strong>ora_client_identifier</strong>
When passed in on the connection attributes it specifies the user 
identifier
in the session handle. Most useful for web app as it can pass in the session
user name which might be different than the connection user name. Can be up
to 64 bytes long do not to include the password for security reasons and the
first character of the identifier should not be ':'. This value can be
retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION view.

<strong>ora_action</strong>
You can set this value to anything you want up to 32byes.This value can be
retrieved on the server side using V$SESSION view.

We have also added in the connection attribute

<strong>ora_connect_with_default_signals</strong>

Whit this attribute you can localize the $SIG{} so this should solve the
problems with  $SIG{} events that sometimes occur when using DBD::Oracle


Finally I would like to thank Martin Evans for volunteering to be 
another co-maintainer of DBD::Oracle



Cheers
John Scoles


Changes
   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 &lt;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&#039;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

Cheers John Scoles


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