ANNOUNCE: DBIx::Admin::BackupRestore V 1.06

The pure Perl module DBIx::Admin::BackupRestore V 1.06
is available immediately from CPAN,
and from http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules.html.

On-line docs, and a *.ppd for ActivePerl are also
available from the latter site.

An extract from the docs:

1.06 Fri May 20 15:45:00 2005
- Correct docs discussing the value 2 for the fiddle_timestamp option, which
said timestamp and should have said datetime.
- Add an FAQ to the docs
- Add method restore_in_order(), which lets you specify the order in which
tables are restored. This allows you to define a column with a clause such as
'references foreign_table (foreign_column)', and to populate the foreign_table
before the dependent table.
But mutually-dependent and self-referential tables are still not catered for.
- Add method split(), which reads an XML file output by backup() and splits out
into a separate file each table you are not skipping. The file names are the
tables' names, including schema if any, and with an extension of 'xml'. The
output files have headers and footers so they are identical in structure to
the file output by backup(). Hence they can be fed back in to restore() and
restore_in_order().
This method helps circumvent the drawback of restore_in_order(), which reads
its input file once per table.
Since this is a file-to-file operation, the dbh parameter to new() is no
longer mandatory.
See examples/split-xml.pl and all-tables.xml for a demo.
- Change methods backup(), restore() and the new restore_in_order() and
split(), to use lower case XML tags 'dbi', 'resultset', and 'row', as they
should have been in the first place.
- Methods restore() and split() will read a file containing upper or lower case
tags.
- Warning: restore_in_order() only handles lower case tags, due to the way
XML::Records works.
- This module now requires these modules, installed in this order:
o XML::Parser
o XML::TokeParser
o XML::Records