ANNOUNCE: Oracle::OCI 0.06

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:12:23PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> 
> The extra param at the end of the OCIAttrGet call tells OCIAttrGet the
> width and signedness of the integer (ie -2 means a signed 2 byte integer,
> while 4 means an unsigned 4 byte integer), and passing 0 means the result
> is a string.
> 
> For the next release I'll let you pass in a string and that'll mean that the
> result is a pointer that should be blessed into that class. That'll remove
> the need for 2 of the 3 explicit 'bless' lines you see above. I'd have done
> it in this release but I only had the idea after uploading it :)

Ah, what the heck... here it is anyway...

  file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/Oracle-OCI-0.06.tar.gz
  size: 36106 bytes
   md5: af2839c322a72b9863da3fbaa834d056 

Changes in 0.06    August 31st 2001

  OCIAttrGet can return a pre-blessed pointer ref if asked
  Made OCIDescribeAny code in 05dbi.t more general.

Enjoy!

Tim.

p.s. If anyone fancies an interesting exercise, it ought to be easy
to do a Math::BigInt::Oracle module (along the lines of these:
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=bigint) using
Oracle::OCI to provide access to the OCINumber* functions :)