2 1.807 1st November 2003
4 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
7 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
9 1.806 22nd October 2002
11 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
13 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
15 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
17 * merged core patch 17838
19 1.805 1st September 2002
21 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
23 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
24 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
26 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
29 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
30 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
32 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
36 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
37 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
39 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
43 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
44 variable redeclaation.
46 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
47 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
49 1.802 6th January 2002
51 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
54 * merged core patch 13942.
56 1.801 26th November 2001
58 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
60 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
62 1.800 23rd November 2001
64 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
66 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
68 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
71 1.79 22nd October 2001
73 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
74 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
76 * merged core patch 12277.
78 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
80 1.79 22nd October 2001
82 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
86 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
90 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
92 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
97 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
98 AIX and adds it to the link options.
100 * Minor documentation updates.
102 * Merged Core patch 9176
104 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
107 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
110 1.76 15th January 2001
112 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
113 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
117 1.75 17th December 2000
119 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
121 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
122 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
124 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
127 1.74 10th December 2000
129 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
130 thinking it was one of its macros.
132 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
134 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
137 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
140 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
143 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
144 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
146 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
148 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
149 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
150 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
154 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
156 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
157 harness has been updated to reflect this.
159 1.72 16th January 2000
163 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
164 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
166 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
167 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
168 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
171 1.71 7th September 1999
173 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
175 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
177 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
181 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
182 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
184 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
189 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
191 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
193 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
197 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
199 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
202 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
206 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
208 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
210 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
211 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
215 * Added DBM Filter code
219 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
220 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
222 1.64 21st February 1999
224 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
225 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
226 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
227 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
229 1.63 19th December 1998
231 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
232 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
233 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
235 1.62 30th November 1998
237 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
238 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
240 1.61 19th November 1998
242 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
244 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
245 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
248 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
251 Updated the license section.
253 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
254 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
255 Those tests have been zapped.
257 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
260 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
261 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
263 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
264 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
265 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
268 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
269 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
270 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
273 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
280 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
281 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
285 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
289 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
294 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
295 been installed by the main Perl build.
298 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
302 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
307 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
309 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
310 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
311 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
315 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
316 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
318 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
319 O_* constants from Fcntl.
321 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
323 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
324 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
325 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
331 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
332 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
336 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
340 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
344 Documented the untie gotcha.
348 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
349 when db 1.86 is used.
353 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
356 Changed default mode to 0666.
360 Documented operation of bval.
364 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
368 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
372 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
374 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
379 Minor documentation changes.
381 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
382 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
384 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
385 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
386 constructors to make them -w clean.
388 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
392 Documentation update.
394 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
397 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
399 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
400 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
405 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
407 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
409 Documentation update.
411 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
413 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
415 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
416 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
418 Added get_dup method.
422 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
424 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
429 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
430 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
432 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
434 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
439 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
443 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
444 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
445 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
446 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.