5 * Merged core patch 22258
7 * Merged core patch 22741
9 * Fixed core bug 30237.
10 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
11 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
12 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
14 1.808 22nd December 2003
16 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
18 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
19 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
21 1.807 1st November 2003
23 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
26 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
28 1.806 22nd October 2002
30 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
32 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
34 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
36 * merged core patch 17838
38 1.805 1st September 2002
40 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
42 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
43 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
45 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
48 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
49 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
51 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
55 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
56 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
58 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
62 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
63 variable redeclaation.
65 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
66 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
68 1.802 6th January 2002
70 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
73 * merged core patch 13942.
75 1.801 26th November 2001
77 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
79 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
81 1.800 23rd November 2001
83 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
85 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
87 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
90 1.79 22nd October 2001
92 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
93 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
95 * merged core patch 12277.
97 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
99 1.79 22nd October 2001
101 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
105 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
108 * merged Core patches
109 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
111 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
116 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
117 AIX and adds it to the link options.
119 * Minor documentation updates.
121 * Merged Core patch 9176
123 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
126 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
129 1.76 15th January 2001
131 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
132 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
136 1.75 17th December 2000
138 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
140 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
141 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
143 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
146 1.74 10th December 2000
148 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
149 thinking it was one of its macros.
151 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
153 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
156 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
159 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
162 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
163 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
165 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
167 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
168 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
169 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
173 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
175 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
176 harness has been updated to reflect this.
178 1.72 16th January 2000
182 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
183 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
185 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
186 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
187 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
190 1.71 7th September 1999
192 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
194 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
196 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
200 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
201 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
203 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
208 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
210 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
212 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
216 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
218 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
221 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
225 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
227 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
229 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
230 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
234 * Added DBM Filter code
238 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
239 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
241 1.64 21st February 1999
243 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
244 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
245 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
246 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
248 1.63 19th December 1998
250 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
251 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
252 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
254 1.62 30th November 1998
256 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
257 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
259 1.61 19th November 1998
261 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
263 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
264 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
267 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
270 Updated the license section.
272 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
273 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
274 Those tests have been zapped.
276 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
279 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
280 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
282 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
283 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
284 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
287 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
288 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
289 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
292 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
299 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
300 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
304 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
308 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
313 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
314 been installed by the main Perl build.
317 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
321 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
326 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
328 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
329 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
330 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
334 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
335 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
337 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
338 O_* constants from Fcntl.
340 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
342 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
343 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
344 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
350 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
351 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
355 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
359 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
363 Documented the untie gotcha.
367 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
368 when db 1.86 is used.
372 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
375 Changed default mode to 0666.
379 Documented operation of bval.
383 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
387 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
391 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
393 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
398 Minor documentation changes.
400 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
401 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
403 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
404 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
405 constructors to make them -w clean.
407 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
411 Documentation update.
413 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
416 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
418 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
419 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
424 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
426 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
428 Documentation update.
430 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
432 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
434 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
435 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
437 Added get_dup method.
441 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
443 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
448 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
449 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
451 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
453 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
458 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
462 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
463 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
464 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
465 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.