1.842 14 July 2018
* Document the MaocOS build failures & how MacPort can work around th eissue.
# 125238
# 125585
# RT 133280
* Write all test db files into a directory created by File::Temp
Protects against any possible races if running a parallel build.
* #96357: DB_File destructor is not thread-safe
Added CLONE_SKIP to DB_File.pm and included the test db-threads.t from the patch.
Note - This only works with perl >= 5.8.7
1.841 2 Apr 2018
* #124944 allow ppport.h-less builds in core
1.840 29 Dec 2016
* #119569: Failed to install DB_File-1.839 into Linux
1.839 29 Dec 2016
* #119557: DB_File.xs: unused-parameter warnings
* #107642: unused arg
1.838 15 May 2016
* #101342: R_SETCURSOR compiler warning
#111726: Coverity finding: flagSet() test always false
1.837 9 Jan 2016
* DB_File: database UTF-8 documentation
RT #110248
* Coverity finding: status variable ignored multiple times
RT #111725
1.836 6 Jan 2016
* Confirm build with BDB 6.2
1.835 23 Dec 2014
* Silence more compiler warnings
1.834 11 Dec 2014
* Makefile.PL: version check is missing a zero
RT #100844
1.833 9 Dec 2014
* More Silence compiler warnings
* 1.832 breaks bleadperl C89 build
RT #100812
1.832 8 Dec 2014
* Silence compiler warnings
* #96126: build failure in blead
* C++ change from blead
1.831 15 November 2013
* C99 comment is a nogo
RT #90383
1.830 2 November 2013
* Memory leaks when failed to open db
RT #89589
* DB_File uses AutoLoader for no reason
RT #88258
1.829 7 July 2013
* make realclean: removing all files
RT #68214
* Documented the issue where the error below
BDB0588 At least one secondary cursor must be specified to DB->join
* DB_File installs to wrong place for CPAN version
RT #70420
Makefile.PL prevents INSTALLDIRS on command line.
RT #68287: Makefile.PL prevents INSTALLDIRS on command line.
* typo fix
RT #85335
1.828 7 May 2013
* Minor change to build with Berkeley DB 6.x
1.827 25 Jan 2012
* DB_File.pm - Don't use "@_" construct
[RT #79287]
1.826 25 Jan 2012
* t/db-btree.t - fix use of "length @array"
[RT #74336]
1.825 24 Jan 2012
* t/db-btree.t - fix use of "length @array"
[RT #74336]
1.824 6 Aug 2011
* Amendments to tests to work in blead
[RT #70108]
1.823 6 Aug 2011
* croak if attempt to freeze/thaw DB_File object
[RT #69985]
1.822 12 March 2011
* Link rot
[rt.cpan.org #68739]
1.822 12 March 2011
* Keep DB_File's warnings in sync with perl's
[rt.cpan.org #66339]
1.821 10 January 2011
* Fixed typos & spelling errors.
[perl #81792]
1.820 28 March 2009
* remove MAN3PODS from Makefile.PL to match core.
1.819 18 February 2009
* t/db-recno.t fails if run in a path that contains spaces
[rt.cpan.org #43288]
1.818 21 January 2009
* Updated Makefile.PL for Strawberry Perl.
Patch suggested by David Golden.
* Remove IRIX notes from README. The page referenced doesn't exist
anymore.
1.817 27 March 2008
* Updated dbinfo
* Applied core patch 32299 - Re-apply change #30562
* Applied core patch 32208
* Applied core patch 32884 - use MM->parse_version() in Makefile.PL
* Applied core patch 32883 - Silence new warning grep in void context warning
* Applied core patch 32704 to remove use of PL_na in typemap
* Applied core patch 30562 to fix a build issue on OSF
1.816 28 October 2007
* Clarified the warning about building with a different version of
Berkeley DB that is used at runtime.
* Also made the boot version check less strict.
[rt.cpan.org #30013]
1.815 4 February 2007
* A few casting cleanups for building with C++ from Steve Peters.
* Fixed problem with recno which happened if you changed directory after
opening the database. Problem reported by Andrew Pam.
1.814 11 November 2005
* Fix from Dominic Dunlop to tidy up an OS-X specific warning in
db-btree.t.
* Silenced a warning about $DB_File::Error only being used once.
Issue spotted by Dominic Dunlop.
1.813 31st October 2005
* Updates for Berkeley DB 4.4
1.812 9th October 2005
* Added libscan to Makefile.PL
* Fixed test failing under windows
1.811 12th March 2005
* Fixed DBM filter bug in seq
1.810 7th August 2004
* Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
* Added substr tests to db-hast.t
* Documented AIX build problem in README.
1.809 20th June 2004
* Merged core patch 22258
* Merged core patch 22741
* Fixed core bug 30237.
Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
1.808 22nd December 2003
* Added extra DBM Filter tests.
* Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
1.807 1st November 2003
* Fixed minor typos on pod documentation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
Mark Jason Dominus.
* dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
1.806 22nd October 2002
* Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
* Tidied up the recursion detection code.
* merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
* merged core patch 17838
1.805 1st September 2002
* Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
* Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
* added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
recursively.
* passing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
* DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
1.804 2nd June 2002
* Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
db-recno test harness. Fixed.
* merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
1.803 1st March 2002
* Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
variable redeclaration.
* FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
1.802 6th January 2002
* The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
numbers. Fixed.
* merged core patch 13942.
1.801 26th November 2001
* Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
* Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
1.800 23rd November 2001
* use pport.h for perl backward compatibility code.
* use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
* upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
"use vars"
1.79 22nd October 2001
* Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
* merged core patch 12277.
* Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
1.79 22nd October 2001
* Fixed test harness for cygwin
1.78 30th July 2001
* the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
-lpthreads
* merged Core patches
10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
* added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
1.77 26th April 2001
* AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
AIX and adds it to the link options.
* Minor documentation updates.
* Merged Core patch 9176
* Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
recno databases.
* Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
5.6.1 or better.
1.76 15th January 2001
* Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
this approach.
1.75 17th December 2000
* Fixed perl core patch 7703
* Added support to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
* Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
1.74 10th December 2000
* A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
thinking it was one of its macros.
* Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
* DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
available).
* Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
for Berkeley DB 3.x
* Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
treatment.
* @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
* Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
* Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
"Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
1.73 31st May 2000
* Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
* Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
harness has been updated to reflect this.
1.72 16th January 2000
* Added hints/sco.pl
* The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
isn't it will use DynaLoader.
* The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
on CPAN).
1.71 7th September 1999
* Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
* Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
* Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
1.70 4th August 1999
* Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
* Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
libdb.a/so.
1.69 3rd August 1999
* fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
* Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
* Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
1.68 22nd July 1999
* Merged changes from 5.005_58
* Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER processing in Berkeley DB
2 databases.
* Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
1.67 6th June 1999
* Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
* Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
* A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
1.66 15th March 1999
* Added DBM Filter code
1.65 6th March 1999
* Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
* The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
1.64 21st February 1999
* Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
* Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
* Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
1.63 19th December 1998
* Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
* Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
1.62 30th November 1998
Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
1.61 19th November 1998
Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
using HP-UX.
Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
1.60
Changed the test to check for full tied array support
1.59
Updated the license section.
Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
Those tests have been zapped.
Added dbinfo to the distribution.
1.58
Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
1.57
If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
#undef'ed before db.h is included.
1.56
Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
1.55
Merged 1.16 changes.
1.54
Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
1.53
Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
1.52
Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
Merged 1.15 patch.
1.51
Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
been installed by the main Perl build.
Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
1.50
DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
the same time.
1.16
A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
__attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
1.15
Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
O_* constants from Fcntl.
Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
inherited into.
1.14
Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
1.13
Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
1.12
Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
1.11
Documented the untie gotcha.
1.10
Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
when db 1.86 is used.
1.09
Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
DB_File::BTREEINFO.
Changed default mode to 0666.
1.08
Documented operation of bval.
1.07
Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
1.06
Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
1.05
Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
Perl is installed.
1.04
Minor documentation changes.
Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
<hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
constructors to make them -w clean.
Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
1.03
Documentation update.
DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
automatically.
The standard hash function exists is now supported.
Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
values.
1.02
Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
Documentation update.
Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
Added get_dup method.
1.01
Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
returned an error.
1.0
DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
version number has been incremented to 1.0.
Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
has been fixed.
0.3
Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
0.2
When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
<grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.
0.1
First Release.