RE: ANNOUNCE: DBD:Oracle 1.18

John,

When you say named parameter binding is not supported, are you talking about
*all* named parameters, or just for array operations? We use named
parameters (e.g. :cust_id) extensively because it is more readable, position
independent, and if you are using the same parameter more than once you only
need to bind the value once. Does this mean 1.18 would break our existing
code? If so, are you expecting to rectify this behaviour - in the near
future?

Thanks,

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Scoles [mailto:scoles@pythian.com]
> Sent: Monday, 24 July 2006 12:42 PM
> To: dbi-users@perl.org; dbi-announce@perl.org; dbi-dev@perl.org
> Subject: ANNOUNCE: DBD:Oracle 1.18
>
>
> DBD::Oracle 1.18 has been released.
>
> With this release DBD::Oracle finally implements Oracle's native Array
> Interface. You will see very dramatic increase in speed.
> For example; the time for a 2 million plus insert query dropped from well
> over an hour to less than 10 minutes when using execute_array() and the
> new
> code.
>
> The new code is not 100% DBI compliant as it does not yet support named
> parameter binding,but it does support all the other forms of binding and
> has
> full support for return Tuples. Many thanks to Kristian Nielsen for his
> original work on this code.
>
> There is also expanded support for LOB Locators from Jeffrey Klein.
>
> Finally there are number of little fixes and an update or two to the
> readmes.
>
> please enjoy.
>
> John Scoles
>
> (Please note that it may take a little while for CPAN to update to the
> latest version so if you need the latest code you can always use the
> subversion URL
> http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk.)
>