From: Kubo Takehiro <kubo@...>
Date: 2012-04-22T21:19:10+09:00
Subject: [ANN] ruby-oci8 2.1.1

Ruby-oci8 2.1.1 is released. This is the Oracle module using OCI8 API.

  http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/

New Features
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- Statement caching in OCI

  See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e10646/oci09adv.htm#i471377
  This feature is enabled only when the Oracle client is 9iR2 or upper.

  The default cache size is 20. It can be changed as follows.

    # change the size to 100.
    OCI8.properties[:statement_cache_size] = 100

Specification changes
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- OCI8::LOB#read() returns an empty string '' when it is an empty lob.

  It had been returned nil.

Fixed Issues
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- OCI8::CLOB.new(conn, '') works now.

- fix core dump when calling PL/SQL procedure with cursor argument.
  https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/11
  (reported by Raimonds Simanovskis)

- fix testcase failures in DST.
  https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/8
  (reported by Yasuo Honda)

- fix a compilation issue on Redhat.
  (reported by John Beckwith and others)

- fix "wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)" when a date member in a
object type is accessed.
  (repored by Leoš Bitto)