ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.24 Release Candidate 1

Well here it is the long awaited 1.24 Beer version of  DBD::ORACLE

http://sctvguide.ca/images/bd_two-four.jpg


You can find the release candidate here

http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.24-RC1.tar

Any and all testing will be most welcome!

Well a big load of stuff this time.  A number of patches and bug fixes
plus with this RC I am introducing a two really big features

1) Full support for a multiple records from a single Fetch.  This should
    really speed things up as it cuts down on round trips to the
    server

2) I have added ora_ncs_buff_mtpl or environment var ORA_DBD_NCS_BUFFER
    so you can control the size of the byte buffer for lobs.  So rather
    than a default buffer 4* the Long_Read_Length or it is now 1.
    This should free up great hoards of memory for your LOB Fetches

anyway here is a complete list


  Added extended support for 64 bit clients in Makefile.PL from Ralph 
Doncaster
   Added extended nvarchar support from Jan Mach
   Added support for the TYPE attribute on bind_col and the new DBI 
bind_col attributes StrictlyTyped and DiscardString from Martin J. Evans
   Added ora_ncs_buff_mtpl and environment var ORA_DBD_NCS_BUFFER so we 
can control the size of the buffer when doing nclob reads
   Fix for bug in for  changes to row fetch buffer mostly lobs and 
object fetches
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49741 Oracle.h has commented out params 
in OCIXMLTypeCreateFromSrc from Kartik Thakore
   Added from rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49436 Patch to add support for a few 
Oracle data types to type_info_all from David Hull
   Added from rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49435 Patch to add support for a few 
Oracle data types to dbd_describe from David Hull
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=49331 Bad code example in POD from John 
Scoles
   Added support for looking up OCI_DTYPE_PARAM Attributes
   Added support for looking up csform values
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46763,46998 enhancement -Rowcache size 
is now being properly implemented with row fetch buffer from John Scoles
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46448 enhancement -Errors returned by 
procedures are now unicode strings from Martin Evans, John Scoles and 
Tim Bunce
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=47503 bugfix - using more than 1 LOB in 
insert broken from APLA
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46613 bugfix - sig-abort on nested 
objects with ora_objects=1 from TomasP
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46661 DBD::Oracle hungs when 
insert/update with LOB and quoted table name from APLA
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46246 fetching from nested cursor 
(returned from procedure) leads to application crash (abort) from John 
Scoles
   Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=46016  LOBs bound with ora_field broken 
from RKITOVER
   Fix for bug in 58object.t when test run as externally identified user 
from Charles Jardine