Re: ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.22 Release Candidate 1

Thanks for all your hard work on this John. Here are some observations 
and results:

o META.yml is missing - you get the following during Makefile.PL processing:

Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
	META.yml

o there is a =back4 in the pod that should be just "=back"
Oracle.pm:2918: Unknown command paragraph "=back4"

o when you are using instant client the Makefile.PL still says:

WARNING: The tests will probably fail unless you set ORACLE_HOME yourself!

I do not think this is correct. You do not need ORACLE_HOME set with 
instant client and Oracle actually tell you to not set ORACLE_HOME with 
instant client on unix.

o there is a typo in the changes file:

connection part of POB => POD

o the segfault I reported with fetching lobs via a procedure returned 
cursor is fixed.

o ora_auto_lob confirmed as working from a statement handle created for 
a procedure returned cursor.

o all tests pass using instant client 11.1 on Linux Ubuntu 8.04 
(completely up to date with all fixes).

o all tests pass using instant client 10.2 on Linux Ubuntu 8.04 
(completely up to date with all fixes)

Attached is a new set of tests which check that bugs have been fixed. It 
includes tests for issues I found above.

I have not as yet run this release candidate with our application but I 
hope to do this before the end of the day.

Martin
-- 
Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
http://www.easysoft.com

John Scoles wrote:
> 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
> 
>