ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.22 Release Candidate 1

Well here is is a very large maintenance release of DBD::ORACLE

You can find it here

http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.22-RC1.tar

Any and all testing would be greatly appreciated, but especially
testing of building against Oracle Instant Client on a range of platforms.

Looks like I got Makefile to work on most clients and platforms 
including 64 bit sun and others

As well don't bother testing this against an 8 DB or Client as  I am 
dropping support  for 8 in this version. See the POD for more details.

Here is a quick look at what has been fixed in this version

  Update to connection part of POB from  John Scoles
  Fix to test suite to bring it up to standard from Martin Evans
  Fix for memory hemorrhage in bind_param_inout_array found by Ricky 
Egeland, Fix by John Scoles
  Fix for a typo in oracle.xs from Milo van der Leij
  Fix for bugs on SPs with Lobs reported by Martin Evans, Fix by J Scoles
  Changed the way Ping works rather than using prepare and execute it 
now makes a single round trip call to DB by John Scoles
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=37501 fail HP-UX Itanium 11.31 makefile 
also added the OS and version to the output of the Makefile.PL for 
easier debugging. from John Scoles and Rich Roemer
  Added a number of internal functions for decoding OCI debug values 
from John Scoles
  Fix for  hpux 11.23 linker error unrecognized argument on the Makefile 
from someone on CPAN forum
  Added fetch by piece for lobs, fixed persistent lobs and expansed 
their usage for LONG and LONG RAW and changed to pod to reflect the 
changes from John Scoles
  Added comment to POD on case sensitivity of ORACLE environment 
variables suggested by Gerhard Lausser
  Added patch to fix a number of harmless, but annoying, GCC warnings 
from Eric Simon
  Added (finally) ora_verbose for DBD only tracking from John Scoles and 
thanks to H.Merijn Brand
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=32396 from John Scoles
  Fix for memory leak that snucked into 1.21 from John Scoles
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=36069: Problem with synonym from John Scoles
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=28811 ORA_CHAR(s) not returning correct 
length in functions and procedures from John Scoles
  Makefile.PL now working without flags for Linux 11.1.0.6 instant 
client and regular client from John Scoles, Andy Sautins, H.Merijn 
Brand, Nathan Vonnahme and Karun Dutt
  Fixed how persistent lob fetch works now uses callback correctly, from 
John Scoles & Darren Kipp