From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2009-05-18T06:06:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby-oci8 1.0.6 and 2.0.2

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I'm looking forward to trying this out!

I have a question though. I've noticed you have a few objects like OraDate.
Why have something like OraDate when there's objects like DateTime that more
or less do the same thing?

James

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM, KUBO Takehiro <kubo@jiubao.org> wrote:

> Ruby-oci8 1.0.6 and 2.0.2 are released. These are Oracle modules using
> OCI8 API.
>
>  http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/
>
> Ruby-oci8 1.0.6 is a latest stable release. The target ruby version
> is 1.8. It doesn't work with ruby 1.9.
>
> Ruby-oci8 2.0.2 is an unstable release. It works on both ruby 1.8 and
> 1.9 and has usefull features compared with ruby-oci8 1.0.6.
> Note: Active record oracle adapter doesn't work with 2.0.2.
> Use Active record oracle_enhanced adapter instead.
>  http://rubyforge.org/projects/oracle-enhanced
>
> What's new in 1.0.6.
>
> * fix a problem when compiling for Oracle 8.0.
>  (reported by Axel Reinhold as a ruby-oci8 2.0 issue)
>
> * [dbi] fix to pass a newly added sanity check in dbi 0.4.1.
>  (reported by Dirk Herzhauser as a ruby-oci8 2.0 issue)
>
> * [dbi] fix dbh#columns for Oracle 8.1 or lower.
>  The data dictionary all_constraints doesn't have index_name
>  column on Oracle 8i. Rewrite DBI::DBD::OCI8::Database#columns
>  by using all_cons_columns.
>  (backport from ruby-oci8 trunk)
>
> What's new in 2.0.2.
>
> * add new methods
>
>  - OCI8#select_one(sql, *bindvars)  -> first_row
>
>  - OCI8#ping   -> true or false
>
>    Verifies that the Oracle connection is alive.
>    OCI8#ping also can be used to flush all the pending OCI
>    client-side calls to the server if any exist.
>
>  - OCI8#client_identifier = client_id
>
>    Look at the following link to know what is the client identifier.
>
> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-solutions/oracle-session-tracing-part-i-16356
>
>    Note that the specified identifier doesn't change the v$session
>    immediately. It is done by the next network round trip
>    such as OCI8#exec or OCI8#ping.
>
> * fix problems when compiling with Oracle 9.2 and 8.0.
>  (reported by Axel Reinhold)
>
> * [dbi] fix to pass a newly added sanity check in dbi 0.4.1.
>  (reported by Dirk Herzhauser)
>
> * fix an error when executing "select NULL from dual".
>  http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=32468&forum_id=1078
>  (contributed by Raimonds Simanovskis)
>
> * [ruby 1.9] fix OCI8::BLOB to read/write binary. Prior to 2.0.1,
>  it was treated as text tagged with NLS_LANG encoding.
>
> * [ruby 1.9] fix to bind string data by the length got from String#bytesize
>  converted to OCI8.encoding, not by String#size.
>
>

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