ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.23 Release Candidate 1

Well here it is the long awaited 1.23 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67khDZ0P7Xo or the Sesame Street 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street version of  DBD::ORACLE

You can find the release candidate here

http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.23-RC1.tar

Any and all testing will be most welcome!

Again this version is largely bug fixes and such but I have added two 
new internal function

  1) ora_stmt_type
   Returns the OCI Statement Type number for the SQL of a statement handle.
  2) ora_stmt_type_name
   Returns the OCI Statement Type name for the SQL of a statement handle.

and I also added a patch from Tomas Pokorny for extended Object support

Here is the complete change list

  Fix in case there may be a bug in 11 where the OCI_ATTR_DATA_SIZE my 
return 0 which should never happen, John Scoles
  Fix on the Makefile.PL for a possible sql bug in IC from Martin J. Evans
  Added a change from a suggestion from Martin Evans for making ref 
cursors faster.
  Added rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42328 ora_objects attribute for extended 
embedded objects support from Tomas Pokorny
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42328 user defined types from different 
schema in describe_obj from Tomas Pokorny
  Added a README for sun suggested by Jim McCullars
  Clean up of white space and formating to 4 tabs  from John Scoles
  Fix for GCC 4.3 warnings from Eric Simon
  Standardized the dbd_verbose levels so they are all 3 and over.  from 
John Scoles
  Added private statement functions ora_stmt_type_name and ora_stmt_type 
from John Scoles
  Update to POD from Chris Underhill
  Added README.win64.txt with content from Alex Buttery
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=21920 Bug with Oracle DBD for Mac OS X 
Instant Client From boingolover
  Added a few more constants to get rid of magic numbers from John Scoles
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=38267 Inserts/Updates to BLOB's via 
synonyms fails from John Scoles
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39603 build problem and fix missing 
functions in oci.def from Zoltán Sebestyén
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39374 Makefile.PL: error when reducing 
echo messages from make from Tippa
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39232 binding large XMLTYPE fails on 
64-bit perl from Jeff Klein
  Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=38749 Warning of a NULL column in an 
aggregate function also added ora_oci_success_warn to display silent OCI 
warnings from John Scoles
  Patch for UTF8 check on execute_array from David Mansfield and a 
little by John Scoles