Revision history for Perl extension DBD::Solid.

0.20a 9 Feb 2001

IMPORTANT fixes:

• now links against Solid v3.52 libs

0.13a Nov 9, 1999

IMPORTANT fixes:

• Added Brian Slesinsky's fix for alignment problem on solaris w/ timestamps
• Makefile.PL works a little better and detects and warns on Solid version problems

0.12 Jul 26, 1999

IMPORTANT

• New maintainer...me

Minor fixes:

• Now links to Solid 3.0 libaries

0.11 Feb 24, 1998

IMPORTANT fix:

• rebinding of placeholders and NULL values Minor fixes:
• $sth->err gets Solid's native error code. Recent versions used to set $xxx->err to -1 independent of the error returned by Solid.
• SELECT statements not longer require a finish() between execute() of the same sth.
• All binary columns (including BINARY and VARBINARY types) may be used from perl in a transparent fashion.
• ping() not raising error even if RaiseError is set.
• DBD::Solid::Const not longer used inside Solid.pm due to problems with mod_perl/embperl. SQL type values are included in recent DBI modules.
• tests use now DBI_DSN/DBI_USER/DBI_PASS env vars.
• Column names of arbitrary length are possible now (although there is most likely a Solid limit for this).

0.10 Feb 09, 1998

• added Win32 ($Config{ostype} == 'MSWin32') to Makefile.PL
• added freebsd to Makefile.PL (thanks to Tom)
• fixed ping() method for Solid's unix pipe connections (thanks to Tom Moertel)

0.09 Nov 20, 1997

• added support for InactiveDestroy (as suggested by tim)
• added ping() method.
• added irix to Makefile.PL (and a note in the README)
• Autocommit relies (again) on the corresponding database function.

0.08

Bugfixes

• fixed memory leak in $sth DESTROY function (thanks, Tim)
• fixed LINKTYPE=static in Makefile.PL DBI changes:
• added $h->{LongReadLen} and $h->{LongTruncOk} for DBI-0.86 [ was already there as solid_blob_size ]
• solid_blob_size now prints warning when used (the

  preferred attribute is LongReadLen as specified by DBI.)

• README: added statement about DBD::ODBC, linking problems
• changed error handling for fetchrow_array() and read_blob(), so that nothing prints when $h->{PrintError} is active.
• $h->err is only set when really an error occured; conditions like SQL_NO_DATA_FOUND and SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO only set $h->err when they are not expected.
• Like the fetchrow_xxx() functions, the blob_read() function now returns undef to indicate that all data was fetched from a field.

0.07 Sun Jun 08 20:14:01 MET DST 1997

Bugfixes

• bind_columns now works immediate after prepare().
• AutoCommit handled by driver, rollback/commit at disconnect() depends on AutoCommit value. This works around a Solid database bug.

Enhancements

• The write/only attribute $dbh->{solid_characterset} may be used to activate Solid's character set translation features.
• Makefile.PL knows about more operating systems:

  linux SCO3.2 hpux irix solaris

• changed function names so DBD::Oracle and DBD::Solid may coexist in a static perl binary
• $dbh->{AutoCommit} is now ON by default (to comply to DBI spec)
• links dynamic by default
• $sth->execute() returns the row count [the same value like $h->rows(), so returns -1 after executing a select]
• $sth->rows() counts the rows actually fetched from the database.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

• It's not longer possible to set the size of the buffer used to fetch LONG columns using the $sth->{blob_size} syntax. You may use either the solid_blob_size attribute to prepare() or the blob_read function.
• After fetching all rows, $sth->err becomes zero instead of +100 to suppress weird messages from $h->{PrintError} at end of each fetch.

0.06 Tue May 31 1997

• Bugfix for perl 5.003: testenv.pm now uses Exporter.

0.05 Sat May 10 03:24:12 MET DST 1997

• truncate of LONG fields is now working
• some minor bugs, especially tests, are fixed
• error handling complies to the DBI draft ($h->err, $h->errstr and $h->state should be full functional)
• Makefile.PL is now a bit more intelligent
• Tested with Perl5.003_95 and DBI-0.81

0.04

• The 0.03 test problem is FIXED.
• Bugfix fetchrow(): returns truncated LONG VARCHAR columns now

  with the truncated size, not padded with random memory contents.

• Bugfix fetchrow(): TIMESTAMP values are now converted to

  ascii without forgetting the time value. This is done using sprintf(). No way with implicit TIMESTAMP=>C_CHAR conversion (???)

• Makefile.PL:

  added Solid-2.2 filenames. added [experimental] shared linking with static

  Solid libraries.

• blob_read() works! - at least with Solid-2.2.

0.02 Tue Feb 26 03:12:57 1997

• released V0.02

0.01 Tue Dec 31 07:02:39 1996

• original version; created by h2xs 1.16