ANNOUNCE: Alzabo 0.44
[email protected] (Dave Rolsky)
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Alzabo is a program and a module suite, with two core functions. Its first use is as a data modelling tool. Through either a schema creation interface or a perl program, you can create a set of schema, table, column, etc. objects to represent your data model. Alzabo is also capable of reverse engineering your data model from an existing system. Its second function is as an RDBMS to object mapping system. Once you have created a schema, you can use the Alzabo::Runtime::Table and Alzabo::Runtime::Row classes to access its data. These classes offer a high level interface to common operations such as SQL SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE commands. This is mostly a bugfix release with one nice new feature in the schema creator. Changes: 0.44 Bug fixes: - Bug fix in Alzabo::Runtime::Table->set_prefetch. Reported by Bob Gustafson. - Don't try to make directories when running Makefile.PL. Save it for later after user does 'make install'. - Fix handling of geometric types in Postgres (they were all being rejected as invalid). - Drop columns from a table before adding new ones. Sometimes this makes a difference. For example, if you are using MySQL and drop an existing AUTO_INCREMENT column and add a new one that is also AUTO_INCREMENT. - Only allow one sequenced column per table when using MySQL. - Doc fixes. Thanks to Ron Savage for pointing me towards some of these. - Fix a bug with the schema creator. If you attempted to make a change to a column with an extended type and you did not change the type, an error occurred. Enhancements: - Schema creator now shows you a list of possible column types instead of having you type it in. However, for complex types like MySQL's ENUM or Postgres' POLYGON there is a text box to type it in.