$Id: CHANGES,v 1.22 2005/03/20 19:50:59 mpeppler Exp $
2.18 Bug Fixes
Various BLK fixes.
Fixed Sybase::BCP and Sybase::BLK tests which failed against
12.5.3 servers (changes on the Server side).
Bugs Fixed:
577 - perl Makefile.PL fails if umask is 0.
2.17 Kerberos Network login
Support for CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH and CS_SEC_SERVERPRINCIPAL
connection properties in Sybase::CTlib.
Support CS_SERVERADDR connection properties in Sybase::CTlib,
and also allow the $server parameter to ct_connect to be
specified as "host:port" (requires OpenClient 12.5.1 or later).
Some documentation changes/improvements in Sybase::CTlib.
Bug Fixes
546 umask checking doesn't work on Windows.
555 blk_rowxfer doesn't handle datatype conversion errors.
560 Long binary columns are truncated by ct_fetch.
542 Fetch binary in raw format.
538 DBlib doesn't export TRACE_xxx symbols.
2.16 Various bug fixes
Added DBSETLENCRYPT() to Sybase::DBlib.
Added DBDEAD() to Sybase::Sybperl.
Rearranged the directory structure somewhat so that all the
tests are now in one directory and are run as one unit.
64-bit builds should now be detected automatically (assuming
the perl binary was built in 64-bit mode)
Split out the documentation so that there are now pod entries
in DBlib.pm and CTlib.pm.
Bug Fixes
494 Do not try to use the ocs.cfg file if it exists.
499 Change MAXNAME to DBMAXNAME in the DBlib source.
500 $date->info return invalid data.
511 Change login to syb_login in DBlib.xs (work-around for FreeBSD).
516 Money/Numeric values lose precision when not using
UseMoney/UseNumeric.
518 looking for non-existent library file (solaris 2.8/ASE 12.5.0.3
perl 5.8)
498 Problem compiling sybperl under HP-UX 64-bit mode.
488 Sybase::CTlib and DBD::Sybase end up using the same error
handler
470 BLK.pm does not handle empty columns as NULL, and does not
have retry logic of BCP.pm
410 BCP.pm has regex bug.
379 Sybase::BCP::config() does not correctly handle incremental
changes
2.15 Various bug fixes
Support for 64bit OpenClient on platforms that support this
(Thanks to Pamela Schulz for her help with this)
Added CTlib/t/xblk.t and CTlib/t/prepare.t test scripts.
CS_BLK_CANCEL was not exported.
For building with FreeTDS you can now add -DNOBLK to the
EXTRA_DEFS line in CONFIG.
Bug Fixes
468 Makefile.PL has syntax error when used with perl 5.8.x
460 Idem.
439 Makefile.PL fails for very old Sybase installation (i.e.
installation with no CT-Library)
423 Fix Makefile.PL for Win32 builds.
422 t/bcp.t fails against 11.0.3.3 linux servers.
2.14 And more (minor) bug fixes
config.pl's getExtraLibs() now tries to determine the Client
Library version to avoid linking with -linsck or -ltli for
OC 11 or later (as the correct library is loaded dynamically
based on the values defined in $SYBASE/config/libtcl.cfg)
Added support for CS_HAFAILOVER connect option (thanks to
Ranko Popovic)
Added CTlib version of nsql().
Documentation patches from Geoffrey Rommel.
Fixed memory leak when using UseDateTime/UseMoney/UseNumeric.
Add Async calls for CTlib (ct_poll(), etc).
Add CS_DATA_LCHAR connection capability.
Add ct_dyn_prepare() and ct_dyn_execute() to handle "dynamic SQL"
- thanks to Masatsuyo Takahas for the patch.
Add experimental blk_*() calls.
Ask for the PWD entries during the perl Makefile.PL phase.
Add Sybase::BLK module (based on Sybase::BCP) (*many* thanks to
Scott Zetlan for this!)
Bug Fixes
309 Sybase::BCP fails test if server is set to use
datarows locking by default.
2.13 Yet more bug fixes
Correct EMBED_SYBASE handling (bug in config.pl script).
Fix building for Sybase 12.0 (uses SYBASE_OCS environment
variable.)
Added dbretlen(), dbretname(), dbrettype() to DBlib.
Minor changes to support wide data in Sybase 12.5.
340: Sybase::BCP fails unless REORDER is defined.
342: DateTime calc method microseconds aren't.
2.12 More bug fixes
Better EMBED_SYBASE, thanks to Mike Hiller.
Added UseBix0x mode to CTlib.
269: dbsqlsend() missing from Sybperl.pm emulation layer.
315: -ldnet_stub directive in CONFIG ignored for OSF1/Tru64 Unix.
312: DBINTERRUPT misspelled in DBlib.xs.
2.11 Various bug fixes.
nsql() patch from W. Philipp Moore.
Added EMBED_SYBASE configuration variable.
dbreadtext() could cause a core dump if the internal call failed.
Figured out what was needed to get Sybase::DBlib to talk to an
MS-SQL 7 dataserver. Sybase::CTlib still does not work with the
normal, non-patched MS-SQL 7 server.
Fixed bug 261: Money/Numeric potentially lose precision in
Sybase::CTlib.
2.10_02
Fix incorrect dropping of locale structure in CTlib::DESTROY.
Link pod/sybperl.pod to CTlib/CTlib.pod and DBlib/DBlib.pod so
that perldoc Sybase::DBlib now works.
2.10_01
Added dbbylist().
Added DBIORDESC() and DBIOWDESC() (contributed by David Worenklein)
Modifications to nsql() contributed by W. Phillip Moore.
Added minimal support for languages and charsets to Sybase::CTlib.
2.10 CTlib TEXT/IMAGE handling
**WARNING**
Please see the sybperl.pod file for dbpoll() syntax
changes.
Added ct_get_data(), ct_send_data(), ct_data_info().
Added some missing documentation.
Added Sybase::CTlib::DBDEAD().
Added Sybase::DBlib::dbcomputeinfo().
Changed DBlib::dbpoll() to allow polling on a single handle.
W. Philipp Moore supplied a patch to CTlib/Makefile.PL to
link with the Sybase _r (re-entrant) libraries if perl
was compiled with threading enabled. **THERE IS NO GUARANTEE
THAT A THREADED VERSION OF Sybase::CTlib WILL WORK CORRECTLY!!!***
Please read README.thread for details.
Bug Fixes:
247: Sybase::DBlib::sql() returns invalid results in $doAssoc mode
when multiple result sets are being processed.
248: cs_dt_info(CS_DT_CONVFMT) doesn't work.
2.09_05 DBlib asynch calls
Added dbpoll(), dbsqlsend() to allow asynchronous calls to Sybase.
Applied W. Philipp Moore's patch to the nsql() routine.
2.09_04 DBlib dbreg*() calls
Added dbreg*() calls to allow execution of OpenServer registered
procedures.
2.09_03 Bug Fixes
235: Calling DBlib's dbexit() breaks Sybase::DBlib on Win32
236: Sybase::CTlib doesn't work with OC 11.x on Win32.
2.09_02 Bug Fixes
233: CTlib dumps core in DESTROY.
2.09_01 Bug Fixes
This is a bug fix release. The only functional change is in the
handling of attributes in Sybase::CTlib when using the
ct_cmd_alloc() call. If you use that call to open
multiple cursors on the same connection then you should
be aware that the attributes are shared between the handles
opened for this connection (ie the handle created with
ct_connect() and the handles created with ct_cmd_alloc().)
Other fixes:
218: length($buf) is incorrect after dbreadtext().
223: dbreadtext() leaves garbage at the end of $buf
224: dbreadtext() missing from Sybase::Sybperl
226: Changing $user in dblogin() fails on NCR
228: BCP RECORD_SEPARATOR error
229: BCP & null_pattern error
232: SEGV in ctutils.pl when inserting a duplicate row.
2.09 Performance Enhancements / Win32 portability release:
Added nsql() routine to Sybase::DBlib (contributed by
W. Phillip Moore).
Added dbcc.pl (run dbcc's and filter the error messages) and
SecureSql.pm (contributed by Olivier Mary) to the eg/
directory.
Bug fixes:
216 Sybase::BCP fails under Win32 systems
219 Silence some 'variable used only once' warnings.
2.08_52
Added dbsetdefcharset() and dbsetdeflang() to Sybase::DBlib
Added cs_dt_info() to Sybase::CTlib.
Added ability to set certain connection properties in
Sybase::CTlib.
Bug Fixes:
209: CTlib appends trailing \0 byte to string values.
2.08_51
Added dbproc and ConInfo attributes back into the handle
attributes.
Fixed some small-ish bugs introduced by the changes in
2.08_50.
Merged in porting notes to Win32 from Krzysztof Koczyjan
<krzysztofK@worldnet.att.net> (see README.win32 for details).
Bug Fixes:
194: CTlib has hard coded warn() calls in ct_connect()
2.08_50
Avoids hash for storage of internal attributes data.
Can return reference to a pre-allocated array.
Bug Fixes
Merged in porting notes for VMS from Charles Bailey
(baily@newman.upenn.edu)
2.08 New Features:
Added dbpreptext(), dbreadtext(), dbmoretext(), dbsqlok()
and force_dbclose() to Sybase::DBlib.
Added dbspid() to Sybase::DBlib
Bug Fixes
Made some code adjustments to silence some perl 5.004
warnings.
Finally fixed the "'rpcInfo' is not a valid Sybase::DBlib
attribute" bug...
Fixed DBSETLPACKET() macro definition (for pre-system 10
libraries).
Fixed ct_config() so that integer values can be set and
retrived. This implied adding a 'type' argument which defaults
to CS_CHAR_TYPE, but must be set to CS_INT_TYPE if integer
values are passed or retrieved.
Fixed dbclose() in Sybperl.pm to *really* close connections.
Renamed config to config.pl to avoid problems under Win/NT.
ct_fetch() added an extra \0 at the end of TEXT/IMAGE data.
Fixed a reorder bug in BCP.pm.
Fixed Sybase::CTlib::ct_sql() to set $dbh->{RC} to CS_FAIL
when an error occurs in the processing.
Sybase::DBlib::dbrpcxxx() calls where not returning any success
or failure information.
Sybase::CTlib::ct_col_types() returns CS_INT_TYPE for all integer
types.
2.07 Bug Fixes
Added ct_config() call to CTlib.
Fixed memory leak when using TEXT data with the CTlib module.
Fixed some data handling and column splitting problems in the
BCP module.
Improved data handling and data integrity in the bcp_*() calls
in DBlib.
2.06 Bug Fixes
Fixed memory leak when the -DDO_TIE compile time option is
turned on.
Fixed 32/64 bit pointer problem that caused CTlib to fail on
the Dec Alpha.
DESTROY function now makes sure that it only closes
connections in the process that created them (ie a child
process started via fork() would sometimes close the
connections of the parent...)
New, fully re-written dbschema.pl (thanks to David Whitmarsh)
2.05 Bug Fixes
BugId Description
165 Make fails if DBLIBVS < 461.
166 bcp_sendrow() truncates binary (ie TEXT/IMAGE)
fields if they contain NULL bytes.
167 The 5.002 make install places local module in
$PERL5LIB/site_perl, which is searched *after*
$PERL5LIB.
169 -L$SYBASE/lib comes too late in the
$LDFLAGS/$LDDLFLAGS Makefile variables, which can
cause the wrong library to be referenced (tcl/tk's
libtcl.a vs. Sybase's).
170 Retrieving numeric data causes the fields to be
padded with spaces instead of being NULL terminated
after the last digit.
2.04 DBlib and CTlib Feature release.
New Sybase::BCP module.
** NOTE **
This version requires Perl 5.002.
- Added ct_describe to retrieve the information held in the
CS_DATAFMT structure for each column in the result set.
- Added Sybase::{CTlib, DBlib}::debug(level) which enables the
tracing of certain internal states and operations.
- Turned Sybase::CTlib and Sybase::DBlib database handle
attributes into a tied hash, so that invalid attribute names
(such as spelling mistakes) can be caught (NOTE: This is a
compile time option that can be turned OFF if you don't like
it). To allow add hoc attributes to be set by the programer
you can pass a hash reference as fifth parameter to the
dblogin/ct_connect calls with the additional attributes that
you want the DBlib or CTlib modules to recognize.
- Added Sybase::DBlib::DBSETLPACKET and
Sybase::DBlib::dbgetpacket to allow the use of non-default
network packet sizes (this can increase the performance
tremendously in certain situations).
- Sybase::DBlib can now return DATETIME and MONEY values in native
format, with the same functionality as Sybase::CTlib.
- Re-wrote and cleaned up some of the logic in
Sybase::DBlib::dbnextrow() and dbretdata().
- bcp_sendrow() can now take an array reference as data
parameter instead of a LIST. This is a small performance
improvement when processing wide tables. (Passing a LIST is
still supported).
- Added some additional regression tests.
- Reviewed the documentation.
- Sybase::BCP is a new module that attempts to make it easier
to use the bulk copy library. Sybase::BCP includes many
features such as input column re-ordering, failed batch
retries and date/time conversions. It is sub-classed from
the Sybase::DBlib module.
- Sybase::Login is a tkPerl login widget for sybperl. It
requires the Tk module. You will find it in
eg/Login.pm. Contributed by Brent B. Powers.
Bug Fixes:
BugId Description
158 Sybase::CTlib dumps core when retrieving "Extended
Error" data in the default Server Message handler.
159 Make DBSETLPACKET() available in DBlib.
161 make test fails for Sybase::DBlib, Sybase::Sybperl
with perl5.002gamma.
163 bcp_batch is not documented.
2.03 Bug fixes to Sybase::DBlib.
- Retrieving large numeric/decimal/identity values caused
floating point values in exponential notation to be
returned. This was due to the default behaviour of DBlibrary
to be compatible with release 4.6.1. This version
AUTOMATICALLY calls dbsetversion() to enable System 10
handling of numeric/decimal/identity data if you build against
a System 10 version of DBlibrary.
- Logging for dbwritetext() has been enabled by adding an
additional (optional) $log parameter. I'm not very happy with
the calling sequence (it's getting further and further from
the C version), but that's the cost of not doing it right from
the start, I guess...
BugId Description
155 Retrieving large integers (of numeric or decimal
data types) creates floating point data in
exponential notation.
156 dbsetversion() does not work.
123 Allow logging for dbwritetext().
2.02 Updates & Improvements to the CTlib and DBlib modules.
New Features:
- Sybase::CTlib::ct_sql() can now return an array of references
to associative arrays (one for each row).
- Sybase::CTlib::ct_fetchable() uses a precomputed hash to check
the fetchable status (suggested by Gisle Aas).
Added Sybase::CTlib::ct_cmd_alloc to allow multiple CS_COMMAND
structures with a single connection.
- Added Sybase::CTlib::ct_cmd_realloc to drop and realloc the
current CS_COMMAND structure.
- Added Sybase::DBlib::db*opt() calls. The dbsetopt() call was
implemented in version 1.0xx but somehow did not get recoded
in 2.x.
- Sybase::DBlib::sql() can now return an array of references to
associative arrays (one for each row).
Bug Fixes:
BugId Description
146 Need multiple CS_COMMAND structures for ct_cursor
operations.
147 $date->calc() changes both the original $date and
the new date.
148 Sybperl.pm does not export $DB_IN, $DB_OUT.
151 Sybperl.pm does not define &dbwritetext().
152 Sybperl.pm defines $main::ComputeID, sybperl 1.0xx
used $main::ComputeId.
2.01 For use with either Perl 5.001m or Perl 5.002.
New Features:
- CTlib DateTime, Money and Numeric data handling is now done
either in native mode (ie the data is converted to char
strings or floating precision only when needed which is
sometimes slow) or in 'convert' mode (all data is retrieved in
string or floating point format). The default is to retrieve
data in 'convert' mode. See the 'Attributes' sub-section in
the CTlib section of the manual (pod/sybperl.pod)
Bug Fixes
BugId Description
140 CTlib uses excessive amounts of memory.
The Makefile.PLs have been updated so that they work both with
5.001m (the version I recommend for production use at this
point) and 5.002 beta.
2.0b Updated to work with Perl 5.002 beta. This version *requires*
Perl 5.002beta1f, and MakeMaker.pm 5.14.
Bug fixes:
BugId Description
132 Bizarre copy of CODE in subroutine entry at
t/dblib.t line 93.
138 Problems installing sybperl after upgrading to
5.002 beta 1f.
In addition, the 'undef' bug that I uncovered in sybperl 2b3
has been fixed, so the -DUNDEF_BUG is not necessary anymore.
The MakeMaker utility has progressed, making the existence of
the infamous empty Sybase.xs file unnecessary.
2.0a Bug fixes:
BugId Description
130 CTlib/t/ctlib.t test fails on AIX
136 CTlib fails test on an Onyx running Irix
137 dbnextrow core dumps when retrieve row with binary
length > 140
135 Behaviour change of DBlib::sql not documented in README
133 MakeMaker 5.03 doesn't work with Sybperl.
Additional functionality:
DBlib::DBDEAD and DBlib::remove_xact have been added (thanks
to Joel Truher).
2.0 Base release.