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DBM-Deep-2.0000
River stage two • 13 direct dependents • 75 total dependents
29 ++

Changes for version 2.0000

  • THIS VERSION IS NOT FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH 1.002x.
  • This version is practically identical to the previous dev release. See 1.9999_01, below, for all the hype.
  • Also, a memory leak caused by misuse of field hashes has been fixed.
  • perl 5.8.4 is now required.

Changes for version 1.9999_02

  • (This is the second developer release for 2.0000.)
  • Fixed a broken test
  • Fixed compilation and overloading under perl 5.8.x

Changes for version 1.9999_01

  • (This is the first developer release for 2.0000.)
  • THIS VERSION CHANGES THE FILE FORMAT.
    • Databases from DBM::Deep 1.0003 and higher can still be opened.
    • Newly-created databases automatically use the version 2.x format (numbered 4 internally), which version 1.x cannot open.
    • The optimize method, since it copies everything to a new database, upgrades it.
    • There is a new db_version method.
  • Support for perl 5.6 has been dropped. We now require 5.8. 5.6 users can still use version 1.0025. If anyone really needs 5.6 support in version 2.x, we can add it back again, but would pre- fer not to. Bug fixes may be back-ported to 1.002x if requested.
  • The File back end now supports Unicode. This is only supported for new databases. Old databases in the DBM::Deep 1.0003 format will have to be upgraded for this to work.
  • New external_refs mode, which allows objects retrieved from the database to hang on to the corresponding database entries, keep- ing them alive, even after all references to them from the data- base itself have been deleted.
  • Numeric comparison of DBM::Deep objects now works. Different objects used to compare equal. And there were uninitial- ized warnings.
  • Deletions now work properly in the DBI back end. Deleting an array or hash referenced by two keys in the database used to be a no-op.

Documentation

DBM::Deep::Cookbook
DBM::Deep::Internals

Modules

DBM::Deep
A pure perl multi-level hash/array DBM that supports transactions
DBM::Deep::Engine
DBM::Deep::Engine::File
DBM::Deep::Iterator
DBM::Deep::Iterator::File::BucketList
DBM::Deep::Iterator::File::Index
DBM::Deep::Null
DBM::Deep::Storage::File

Provides

DBM::Deep::Array
in lib/DBM/Deep/Array.pm
DBM::Deep::Engine::DBI
in lib/DBM/Deep/Engine/DBI.pm
DBM::Deep::Hash
in lib/DBM/Deep/Hash.pm
DBM::Deep::Iterator::DBI
in lib/DBM/Deep/Iterator/DBI.pm
DBM::Deep::Iterator::File
in lib/DBM/Deep/Iterator/File.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::DBI
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/DBI.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::DBI::Reference
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/DBI/Reference.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::DBI::Scalar
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/DBI/Scalar.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File::BucketList
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File/BucketList.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File::Data
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File/Data.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File::Index
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File/Index.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File::Null
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File/Null.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File::Reference
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File/Reference.pm
DBM::Deep::Sector::File::Scalar
in lib/DBM/Deep/Sector/File/Scalar.pm
DBM::Deep::Storage
in lib/DBM/Deep/Storage.pm
DBM::Deep::Storage::DBI
in lib/DBM/Deep/Storage/DBI.pm

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