ANNOUNCE: DBI 1.51

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=head2 Changes in DBI 1.51 (svn rev 6475),   6th June 2006

  Fixed $dbh->clone method 'signature' thanks to Jeffrey Klein.
  Fixed default ping() method to return false if !$dbh->{Active}.
  Fixed t/40profile.t to be insensitive to long double precision.
  Fixed for perl 5.8.0's more limited weaken() function.
  Fixed DBD::Proxy to not alter $@ in disconnect or AUTOLOADd methods.
  Fixed bind_columns() to use return set_err(...) instead of die()
    to report incorrect number of parameters, thanks to Ben Thul.
  Fixed bind_col() to ignore undef as bind location, thanks to David Wheeler.
  Fixed for perl 5.9.x for non-threaded builds thanks to Nicholas Clark.
    Users of Perl >= 5.9.x will require DBI >= 1.51.
  Fixed fetching of rows as hash refs to preserve utf8 on field names
    from $sth->{NAME} thanks to Alexey Gaidukov.
  Fixed build on Win32 (dbd_postamble) thanks to David Golden.

  Improved performance for thread-enabled perls thanks to Gisle Aas.
  Drivers can now use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT thanks to Gisle Aas.
    Driver authors please read the notes in the DBI::DBD docs.
  Changed DBI::Profile format to always include a percentage,
    if not exiting then uses time between the first and last DBI call.
  Changed DBI::ProfileData to be more forgiving of systems with
    unstable clocks (where time may go backwards occasionally).
  Clarified the 'Subclassing the DBI' docs.
  Assorted minor changes to docs from comments on annocpan.org.
  Changed Makefile.PL to avoid incompatible options for old gcc.

  Added 'fetch array of hash refs' example to selectall_arrayref
    docs thanks to Tom Schindl.
  Added docs for $sth->{ParamArrays} thanks to Martin J. Evans.
  Added reference to $DBI::neat_maxlen in TRACING section of docs.
  Added ability for DBI::Profile Path to include attributes
    and a summary of where the code was called from.

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Enjoy!

Tim.