ANNOUNCE - DBD-DB2 0.78

Hi everyone,

The long awaited new release of DBD-DB2 is finally out.  I've just uploaded
it to PAUSE, hopefully, it'll find its way to
http://search.cpan.org/src/IBMTORDB2/ and your favorite mirror within a day
or three.

The binary is also available on Jeff Urlwin's site (Thanks Jeff!)
(http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI/)

ppm install http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.4/DBD-DB2.ppd


Here are the changes:

September 20, 2004

DBD::DB2 0.78

  Add support for C-style comments in sql

September 15, 2004

DBD::DB2 0.77

  NOTE: DBD::DB2 now requires DBI 1.21, which requires
  perl 5.005_03 or later.

  Add support for primary_key_info and primary_key

  Add support for foreign_key_info

  Add support for column_info

  Add support for get_info

  Add support for type_info_all and type_info
     - Read CAVEATS file for hints

  Fix statement handle leak. Statements handles
  are not destroyed properly.

  Fix memory leak in $sth->prepare
  Column buffers are not freed

  Fix Linux and Fedora Core build problem by adding
  -I$Config{vendorarch}/auto/DBI to Makefile.PL

  Updated CAVEATS
  Add documentation for binding CLI packages
  Add information on metadata functions
  Add note to remove constants to bypass a linux build error

  Update DB2.pod
  Add metadata function examples


Regards,
Michael Hoy


> The uploaded file
>
>     DBD-DB2-0.78.tar.gz
>
> has entered CPAN as
>
>   file: $CPAN/authors/id/I/IB/IBMTORDB2/DBD-DB2-0.78.tar.gz
>   size: 76406 bytes
>    md5: 4bb183745716f177acd2aa832f70daae
>
> No action is required on your part
> Request entered by: IBMTORDB2 (Michael Hoy)
> Request entered on: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:34:27 GMT
> Request completed:  Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:34:57 GMT
>
> Thanks,
> --
> paused, v460