[ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.4.1 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.4.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- return length as "precision,scale" for NUMERIC and DECIMAL fields in mapNativeDatatype()
- in getTableIndexDefinition() and getTableConstraintDefinition() in the Reverse
module, also return the field position in the index/constraint
- fixed bug #10618: query in listTableIndexes() in the Manager module missing parentheses

note:
- please use the latest ext/oci8 version from pecl.php.net/oci8
(binaries are available from snaps.php.net and pecl4win.php.net)
- by default this driver emulates the database concept other RDBMS have by this
using the "database" instead of "username" in the DSN as the username name.
behaviour can be disabled by setting the "emulate_database" option to false.
- the multi_query test failes because this is not supported by ext/oci8
- the null LOB test failes because this is not supported by Oracle
- fixed query in getTableConstraintDefinition() [bug #10548], made the $table
parameter optional and added support for Foreign Keys and CHECK constraints
(thanks to Hugh Dixon)
- detect autoincrement fields in getTableFieldDefinition() (thanks to Hugh Dixon)
- don't return index definition in getTableIndexDefinition() if it's a constraint

open todo items:
- enable use of read() for LOBs to read a LOB in chunks
- buffer LOB's when doing buffered queries

Package Info
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This is the Oracle OCI8 MDB2 driver.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2_Driver_oci8
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2_Dri...download/1.4.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...oci8-1.4.1.tgz

Authors
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Justin Patrin <papercrane@reversefold.com> (developer)
Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (lead)