ChangeLog

      - Added OCI_RegisterUnsignedInt()
      - Added OCI_ObjectGetUnsignedInt()
      - Added OCI_ObjectSetUnsignedInt()

    * Added public interface for big_int type

      - Added OCI_BindBigInt()
      - Added OCI_BindArrayOfBigInts()
      - Added OCI_GetBigInt()
      - Added OCI_GetBigInt2()
      - Added OCI_RegisterBigInt()
      - Added OCI_ObjectGetBigInt()
      - Added OCI_ObjectSetBigInt()

    * Added public interface for big_uint type (unsigned big_int)

      - Added OCI_BindUnsignedBigInt()
      - Added OCI_BindArrayOfUnsignedBigInts()
      - Added OCI_GetUnsignedBigInt()
      - Added OCI_GetUnsignedBigInt2()
      - Added OCI_RegisterUnsignedBigInt()    
      - Added OCI_ObjectGetUnsignedBigInt()
      - Added OCI_ObjectSetUnsignedBigInt()

    * Extended Object type informations

      - Added OCI_TimestampGetType()
      - Added OCI_IntervalGetType()
      - Added constant OCI_UNKNOWN
      - Removed OCI_SCHEMA_UNKNOWN, OCI_CDT_UNKNOWN, OCI_HASH_UNKNOWN, OCI_ERR_UNKNOWN, OCI_CST_UNDEFINED
      - Use instead OCI_UNKNOWN

    * Added prebuilt binaries for MS Windows 64bits

      - Renamed package ocilib-x.y.z.win32.zip => ocilib-x.y.z.windows.zip
      - Renamed folder lib -> lib32 (for 32bits binaries)
      - Added folder lib64 (for 64 bits binaries)
      - DLL projects for VS2005 and 2008 are provided
      - DLL are compiled with C99 long long type enabled (as before, it is just a reminder)
      - Removed compiled demo binaries from the package to reduce archive size that was increased with 64bits binaries

    * Extended Error handling

      - Added    : OCI_Initialize() with OCI runtime loading build option raises now an error if OCI shared library cannot be loaded
      - Added    : OCI_Initialize() with OCI_CHARSET_UNICODE and Oracle client 8 raises now an error (Oracle 8i cannot handle Unicode metadata strings)
      - Added    : OCI_xxxFmt() calls raise now an error if a format identifier is invalid
      - Added    : OCI_Immediatexxx() calls raise now an error if the type value is not an OCI_ARG_XXX constant
      - Modified : Internal error functions (added OCI_ErrorGeneric())

    * Modified OCI_Immediate() and OCI_ImmediateFmt()

      - Extended type safety (public interface modifications) :

        * For output placeholders, you have to pass NOW one of the OCI_ARG_xxx constant to tell OCILIB the type the placeholder pointer
        * Every placeholder pointer has to be preceded by the type constant
        * Example : OCI_Immediate(st, "select int_col, str_col from my_table", OCI_ARG_INT, &my_int, OCI_ARG_TEXT, my_text);
        * Output placeholders : support NOW for short, unsigned short, unsigned int, big_int, big_uint
        * Updated section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Formatted functions>)
  
      - Fixed    : For OCI_ImmediateFmt(), temporary Statement object was not freed (line commented in 2.3.0 with no reasons !)
      - Fixed    : If internal OCI_GetString() returned NULL, a segmentation fault could happen 
      - Modified : No check was done on scalar C type placeholder pointers nullity (possible source of seg fault)
      - Modified : OCI_Date handling was not updated with v2.3.0 modifications
      - Modified : OCI_Long and OCI_Statement handling was not removed as stated in the changelog of v2.3.0
      - Modified : Factorization of the 2 functions code

    * Modified OCI_xxxFmt() calls :

      - Added new identifiers :

        * '%u'  : unsigned int
        * '%hi' : short
        * '%hu' : unsigned short
        * '%li' : big_int
        * '%lu' : big_uint

    * Miscellaneous changes

      - Added    : windows platforms (WIN32/WIN64) detection 
      - Modified : added some cast to please absolute paranoid builds
      - Modified : OCI_GetRaw() was not checking if parameter 'buffer' was null
      - Modified : rewritten implicit integers and double type conversion in OCI_Getxxx() calls
      - Modified : Macro used for identifying Windows platforms from WIN32 to _WINDOWS
      - Modified : modified some expression evaluation for explicit checks (replaced some if(var) with if(var == x))
      - Modified : added some pointers reinitializations (not needed but we never known...)
      - Modified : OCI_ResultsetExpandStrings() is now included in builds only if OCI_CHECK_DATASTRINGS is defined
      - Modified : OCI_Thread and OCI_Mutex code relooking with OCI_DIRECT, OCI_CHECK_STATUS macros
      - Removed  : implicit conversion from text to integers in OCIGetxxxIntxx() calls

    * Miscellaneous Fixes

      - Fixed : OCILIB was not compiling with MSVC6 (added macro to use _vsnprintf()/_vsnwprintf with MS compilers and vsnprintf()/vsnwprintf() for all others compilers)
      - Fixed : OCI_LobAppendLob() was not updating internal current offset position
      - Fixed : OCI_ParseSqlFmt() : OCI_interval * variable was not checked for nullity
      - Fixed : OCI_Initialize() with runtime loading mode : oracle 11g detection was broken (missing 'else' keyword)
      - Fixed : OCI_GetResultset() : selecting unsupported REF datatype was throwing 2 errors instead of one.
      - Fixed : OCI_GetDate()    + client Oracle 11g + "Return into" clause    : the OCILIB workaround for Oracle bug #3269146 was not working properly
      - Fixed : OCI_BindString() + client Oracle 8i  + OCI_CHARSET_MIXED build : setting internally OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_FORM (since v2.0.0) caused a crash with Oracle 8.1.7.O (OCI bug ?)
      - Normalization of few Function Names :

        * OCI_CreateTransaction() -> OCI_TransactionCreate()
        * OCI_FreeTransaction() -> OCI_TransactionFree()
        * OCI_CreateHashTable() -> OCI_HashCreate()
        * OCI_FreeHashTable() -> OCI_HashFree()
        * OCI_xxxTransaction() -> OCI_Transactionxxx()
 
      - Added Macro for existing code compatibility (except for OCI_xxxTransaction() functions)
 
2008-03-31 Version 2.3.0 Vincent Rogier vince.rogier@gmail.com

    * Added Support for OCI Connection Pools

      - See new section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Connection pooling>)
      - Added type OCI_ConnPool
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolCreate()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolFree()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetConnection()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetTimeout()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolSetTimeout()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetlGetNoWait()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolSetNoWait()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetBusyCount()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetOpenedCount()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetMin()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetMax()
      - Added OCI_ConnPoolGetIncrement()

    * Added Support for OCI Mutexes
     
      - See new section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Threads and mutexes>)
      - Added type OCI_Mutex
      - Added OCI_MutexCreate()
      - Added OCI_MutexFree()
      - Added OCI_MutexAcquire()
      - Added OCI_MutexRelease()

    * Added Support for OCI Threads
     
      - See new section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Threads and mutexes>)
      - Added type OCI_Thread
      - Added OCI_ThreadCreate()
      - Added OCI_ThreadFree()
      - Added OCI_ThreadRun()
      - Added OCI_ThreadJoin()

    * Extended support for public retrieval of internal OCI handles :

      - Added OCI_HandleGetMutex()
      - Added OCI_HandleGetThread()
      - Added OCI_HandleGetThreadID()

    * Extended Lobs support :

      - Added OCI_LobAssign()
      - Added OCI_FileAssign()

    * Extended "Formatted" functions support :

      - Added support for OCI_Timestamp (<%p>) and OCI_Interval(<%v>)

    * Public interface (IMPORTANT CHANGES)

      - OCI_Initialize() :

        * New flag : OCI_ENV_THREADED
        * Up to v2.2.0, OCILIB was internally initializing OCI in threaded mode (even for non threaded applications)
        * With  v2.3.0, applications HAVE TO SET EXPLICITLY the flag OCI_ENV_THREADED for multithreaded applications

      - Normalization of few Function Names :

        * OCI_CreateConnection() -> OCI_ConnectionCreate()
        * OCI_FreeConnection() -> OCI_ConnectionFree()
        * OCI_CreateStatement() -> OCI_StatementCreate()
        * OCI_FreeStatement() -> OCI_StatementFree()

      - Added Macro for existing code compatibility

    * Bug fixes :

      - OCILIB_MINOR_VERSION was not updated
      - A segmentation fault could happen when fetching Long column
      - If an OCI_Statement object or its internal handle could not be allocated, the entry was not removed from the connection statements list
      - Binding and fetching Unicode strings on national character columns: non ansi characters (code points) were badly converted (Now, it uses national charset form for conversion)
      - OCI_LobErase() : Offset value was wrongly used (shifted by 1) and could cause an error if set to zero
      - OCI_Immediate() and OCI_ImmediateFmt() :

        * Passing OCILIB objects for output result led to crash because of assignment of out-of-scope object pointers
        * Now, pass the OCILIB object handle, NOT the handle address
        * Now, OCI_Long, OCI_Statement are not handled

    * Miscelleanous

      - Added OCI_ReleaseResultsets() : optional call to release resultsets
      - OCI_SetPrefetchSize() and OCI_SetPrefetchMemory() : internal value is now set only is OCI call succeed
      - Internal connection rewrite for handling Connection pool
      - Renamed few function parameters + documentation updates
      - Unicode strings are now converted into database using national charset form
      - OCI environment handle : 

        * Up to v2.2.0, every connection object holded an environment handle
        * Now, there is an unique environment handle associated to the internal OCI_Library object

2008-03-19 Version 2.2.0 Vincent Rogier vince.rogier@gmail.com

    * Public interface

      - Added OCI_SetPrefetchMemory() (see documentation)
      - Added OCI_GetPrefetchMemory()
      - Added OCI_SetPassword()
      - Added OCI_Break()
      - See new section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Aborting long operations>)
      - Modified few functions prototypes with no parameters -> from f() to f(void) for strict ansi C support 
      - Added 'const' qualifier to nearly all string parameter and string return values

    * Extended OCI_GetString() :

      - Modified : Implicit conversion from double uses now '%f' instead of '%g'.
      - Added support for OCI_Timestamp, OCI_Interval and implicit conversion

    * Fixes

      - Memory leak : If a statement that has returned a resulset is re-executed directly with OCI_Execute() (without any parse step), the previous resultset was not freed
      - Some statements attributes (fetch size, pre-fetched size, bind mode, long mode, long size) where reinitialized at every SQL parsing. Now they are persistent.
      - Constants OCI_FETCH_SIZE, OCI_PREFETCH_SIZE values were set to Oracle default values and were not assigned at statement creation time.
        So, if the library was rebuilt with different values, the modified values where not applied! Now, theses attributes are internally set internally when a statement is created
      - Now server version is initialized when the connection object is created (some tests for some features support could failed)

    * Modifications

      - Added support for OS authentification by passing NULL user and NULL password to OCI_CreateConnection()
      - Modified default date format for implicit conversion (DD/MM/YYYY -> YYYY-MM-DD)
      - Modified OCI_BindXX() calls : if bind mode is OCI_BIND_POS, the position used is now the given bind name (:1, :2, ...) instead of the internal bind object index
      - Modified OCI_CreateConnection() : it returns now NULL id OCI_Initialize() has not been called
      - Reintroduced support for native C++ compilation of OCILIB

    * Miscellaneous

      - Validation of LabWindow/LabView compilers
      - change email -> vince.rogier@gmail.com
      - Modified demo application: tests are now grouped in series of functions
      - Object support in Unicode builds : Oracle confirmed the bug when setting objects attributes (bug #6885036 on Metalink)

2008-03-04 Version 2.1.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Added public retrieval of internal OCI handles :

      - See new section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Using OCI Handles directly>)
      - OCI_HandleGetEnvironment()
      - OCI_HandleGetContext()
      - OCI_HandleGetServer()
      - OCI_HandleGetError()
      - OCI_HandleGetSession()
      - OCI_HandleGetTransaction()
      - OCI_HandleGetStatement()
      - OCI_HandleGetLob()
      - OCI_HandleGetFile()
      - OCI_HandleGetDate()
      - OCI_HandleGetTimestamp()
      - OCI_HandleGetInterval()
      - OCI_HandleGetObject() 

    * Extended Hash Tables support :

      - See updated example in the documentation (page <module>, section <Hash tables>)
      - Added OCI_HashGetEntry() to browse an OCILIB Hash Tables
      - Added OCI_HashGetType()
      - Added OCI_HashGetSize()
 
    * Added support for Lobs larger > 4 Go (Oracle 10g)

      - See updated section in the documentation (page <module>, section <Internal Large Objects (LOBs)>)
      - Added type lobsize_t (unsigned int or unsigned long long depending platform and compiler)
      - Modified OCI_Lob and OCI_File APIs to change lob size and offset type from unsigned int to lobsize_t 
        
    * Extended Oracle versions support

      - Added OCI_GetVersionConnection()
      - Building OCILIB with versions of Oracle < 10g and OCI_IMPORT_LINKAGE option could fail because :

        * BINARY FLOAT and BINARY DOUBLE (introduced in 10g) type references were not excluded from 8i and 9i builds
        * Some Timestamp and Interval (introduced in 9i) code portions were not excluded from 8i builds

      - Modified Oracle version detection
      - Rewritten conditional code compilation directives for handling correctly all versions of Oracle (8i -> 11g)
      - The library has been through series of tests on the following environments:

          * Servers : 10.2.0.1.0,  8.1.7.0.0           
          * Clients : 11.1.0.6.0, 10.2.0.1.0, 9.2.0.1.0, 9.0.1.0.1

      - few errors were encountered but always linked to Oracle known bugs identified on Metalink : nclobs on 8i, intervals on 9i, Full Unicode handling on 9i
      - Known issues that are currently being investigated: 

        * Oracle 8i only + "mixed charset" build : read/write on a CLOB fetched from a "return into" inserts '\0' between characters (looks like double unicode expansion..)

    * Modified Error handling

      - Added OCI_ErrorGetType()
      - Removed error messages prefixes "(OCI_xxx) - "
 
    * Fixed :

      - OCI_RegisterDate() caused OCI_Execute() to crash with Oracle < 10g. It is a known Oracle bug (metalink id #3269146 : OCIBindDynamic() with SQL_ODT).
      - OCI_RegisterDate() works nows on version < 10g (using SQLT_ODT for 10g and SQLT_DAT for 8i and 9i)
      - OCI_LobAppendLob() caused an ORA-24805 on Oracle 8.1.x only
      - OCI_xxxxToText() functions now initialize output buffers even on failure
  
2008-02-16 Version 2.0.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr
 
    * Added Support for Unicode build on Unix-like systems

      - Now, Unicode is correctly handled on Unix systems (4 bytes wchar_t)
 
    * Added support for Oracle Named types (Oracles Objects)

      - OCI_ObjectCreate()
      - OCI_ObjectFree()
      - OCI_ObjectGetDate()
      - OCI_ObjectGetDouble()
      - OCI_ObjectGetFile()
      - OCI_ObjectGetInt()
      - OCI_ObjectGetInterval()
      - OCI_ObjectGetLob()
      - OCI_ObjectGetObject()
      - OCI_ObjectGetRaw()
      - OCI_ObjectGetString()
      - OCI_ObjectGetTimeStamp()
      - OCI_ObjectSetDouble()
      - OCI_ObjectSetInt()
      - OCI_ObjectSetRaw()
      - OCI_ObjectSetString()
      - OCI_ObjectSetNull()
      - OCI_BindObject()
      - OCI_BindArrayOfObjects()
      - OCI_RegisterObject()
      - OCI_GetObject()
      - OCI_GetObject2()
      - Known issue : OCI function internally used to set attributes values is causes a crash on Unicode Build
      - So, DO NOT USE OCILIB Object API in Unicode build until i have sorted that with Oracle support

    * Added National attribute (charsetform) support

      - added OCI_GetColumnCharsetForm()
      - added OCI_Lob type OCI_NCLOB
      - added national charset support for binding, defining and lob manipulation

    * Extended column information

      - added OCI_GetColumnFullSQLType() that gives the same and exact output than SQL*Plus
      - added OCI_GetColumnFractionnalPrecision() for timestamp/interval
      - added OCI_GetColumnLeadingPrecision() for interval
      - modified OCI_GetColumnPrecision() return non zero only for numeric/float

    * Added support for SYSDBA, SYSOPER session modes

      - modified OCI_CreateConnection() that takes a new extra parameter to manage the session mode
      - added OCI_GetSessionMode()

    * Added support for BINARY FLOAT and BINARY DOUBLE (introduced with Oracle 10g)
 
    * Modified Input string buffer length parameters:

      - Parameter 'len' of OCI_LobRead(), OCI_LobWrite(), OCI_LobAppend(), OCI_LongRead(), OCI_LongWrite() is now :

        * Number of bytes for OCI_BLOB and OCI_BLONG
        * Number of characters for OCI_CLOB/OCI_NCLOB and OCI_CLONG

      - OCI_LobGetLength(), OCI_LobGetOffset() and OCI_LongGetSize() return now the length/offset expressed :

        * In bytes for OCI_BLOB and OCI_BLONG
        * In characters for OCI_CLOB/OCI_NCLOB and OCI_CLONG

      - Parameter 'size' of OCI_DateToText(), OCI_TimestampToText(), OCI_TimestampGetTimeZoneName(), OCI_IntervalToText is now :

        * Number of characters

    * Modified OCI_Long objects

      - Added OCI_LongGetBuffer()
      - Modified: Long columns are complety read internally during fetch sequence
      - Modified: OCILIB can handle more than one OCI_Long object in select resulset
      - OCI_LongRead() still supported but obsolete, use intead OCI_LongGetBuffer() 
      - Fixed : insert statement with OCI_Long bind variable that have inserted 0 bytes caused a crash when
        the statement was freed

    * Modified OCI_Schema public interface

      - Extended support for describing Named types
      - Renamed OCI_SchemaGetTable() to OCI_SchemaGet()
      - Remaned OCI_SchemaGetTableColumn() to OCI_SchemaGetColumn()
      - Remaned OCI_SchemaGetTableColumnCount() to OCI_SchemaGetColumnCount()
      - Added OCI_SchemaGetType()
      - Added OCI_SchemaGetName()

    * Miscellaneous bugs fixes:

      - Fixed : OCI_FetchNext() could return FALSE before the real end of the resultset
      - Fixed : Simple bind of OCILIB objects could lead OCI to crash 
      - Fixed : OCI_VERSION_REVISION was wrongly defined.
      - Fixed : OCI_VERSION_xxx were not up to date
      - Fixed : Modified few internal variables types (size and sign) to conform to Oracle Doc and to make
        AIX "Strict" C Compiler happy !
      - Fixed : Modified configure script for install options on GNU package
      - Fixed : OCI_RegisterString() : the buffer size was wrongly calculated in mixed charset builds
      - Fixed : Corrected spelling of OCI_LobGetLenght() -> OCI_LobGetLength()
      - Fixed : If OCI_RegisterXXX() calls were made in a different order than the variable list in the returning 
        clause, resultset columns were created in the wrong order and leaded to type mismatch

    * Miscellaneous modifications:

      - OCI_Initialize() takes a new param for future environment options and extra modes (by default OCI_ENV_DEFAULT)
      - Sometimes, OCI client describes FLOAT as NUMBER... Added extra checks to correct that!
      - Modification of configure script for 32 bits detection on 32/64bits systems
      - Rewrote the demo app for keeping a unique source demo for all platforms and builds
      - Added OCI_Object and RAWs output support fro OCI_Immediate() and OCI_ImmediateFmt()
      - Added OCILIB own transaction types for OCI_CreateTransaction() and OCI_TransactionGetMode()
      - Removed lots of typos in the source code comments and documentation! 

2008-01-28 Version 1.6.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr
 
    * Extended Oracle version information

      - OCI_GetServerMajorVersion()    
      - OCI_GetServerMinorVersion()    
      - OCI_GetServerRevisionVersion()    

    * Added support for "SQL returning clause"

      - OCI_GetNextResultset()
      - OCI_RegisterInt()    
      - OCI_RegisterString() 
      - OCI_RegisterRaw()   
      - OCI_RegisterDouble()    
      - OCI_RegisterDate()    
      - OCI_RegisterLob()    
      - OCI_RegisterFile()    
      - OCI_RegisterTimestamp()    
      - OCI_RegisterInterval()  
   
    * Miscellaneous added functions

      - OCI_BindArrayGetSize()
      - OCI_GetColumnCharUsed() 
      - OCI_SchemaGetTableName()

    * Important modifications

      - OCI_BindString() and OCI_BindArrayOfStrings() : the parameter len which is the max length of the buffer
       (or array element) is NOW :
            
        * UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT the zero terminal terminator.
        * EXPRESSED in CHARACTERS

      - So, for OCI_BindString() :

        * if the string is char    str[31], pass 30 as len instead of 31 in earlier version
        * if the string is wchar_t str[31], pass 30 as len instead of 62 in earlier version

      - So, for OCI_BindArrayOfStrings() :

        * if the string is char    str[10][31], pass 30 as len instead of 31 in earlier version
        * if the string is wchar_t str[10][31], pass 30 as len instead of 62 in earlier version

      - OCI_GetColumnSize() : return the size in characters for string column created with the qualifier CHAR for
        indicating the size in character and not in bytes

      - Prototypes for OCI_BindArrayOfInts(), OCI_BindArrayOfDoubles(), OCI_BindArrayOfStrings() changed :

        * For scalar C types (int, double and char*), the 'data' parameter was changed from type** to type* in
          order to avoid compiler warnings and casts

    * Miscellaneous modifications

      - Updated documentation (returning features and rowids, ...)
      - Extended source code comments
      - OCI_IsNull() was returning FALSE with a NULL handle, now returns TRUE
      - Added few cast and corrected few variable cast to compile nicely with highest warning level (on MS VS2005)
      - Some static were missing from internal function prototypes declaration
      - OCI_FreeResultset() => removed from public interface
      - Updated input parameter checking macros return values of few functions
      - OCI_SchemaGetTable() -> input parameter checking was missing
      - Updated demo application to make it fully portable (charset and platform)
      - Added comments on internal structure members
      - Call to OCI_GetXXXX2() : added checking on the internal map object allocation on failure
      - OCI_BindRaw() : now returns FALSE if len <= 0
      - OCI_ALLOC() : removed type casting
 
    * Miscellaneous fixes

      - OCI_Immediate() and OCI_ImmediateFmt()  : timestamp and interval params ARE STILL NOT parsed from 
       formatted query
      - Some NUMBER columns were wrongly mapped to C int type instead of double
      - OCI_Long internal structure could not be freed for an standalone instance
      - Demo application for handling string in unicode and mixed mode
      - OCI_LobErase : added size checking (oracle error with size = 0 on an empty lob)
      - OCI_BindArrayOfStrings : the allocated size was done with sizeof(mtext) instead of sizeof(dtext)

2008-01-10 Version 1.5.4 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Miscellaneous modifications and fixes

      - Added    : OCI_REVISION_VERSION constant
      - Fixed    : Statement handle on a statement bind call() was allocated again and not always freed and could
                  lead to an ORA-1000 error (since version 1.3.0)
      - Fixed    : OCI_Date * Array binding : wrong memory allocation size
      - Fixed    : Strings Array binding did not adjust the buffer size depending on the sizeof(dtext) and could
                  make OCI_execute failed on an Unicode build
      - Fixed    : OCI_Long * Type (CLONG or BLONG) was wrongly set
      - Modified : Refactoring of internal datatypes allocation, binding and defining for better performances, 
                  more comptact and safer code
      - Modified : Object datatypes defining from query (User types and Refs) generates now an error
      - Modified : Extended demo application with array binding support, ref cursor, nested tables, 
                  timestamps and intervals
      - Removed  : internal structure OCI_Data

2008-01-07 Version 1.5.3 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Fixed : Array binding support introduced in version 1.5.0 caused troubled for single objects bindings 
            (lobs, files, dates, intervals, timestamps)

2008-01-06 Version 1.5.2 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Fixed : First OCI_FetchNext() call on an EMPTY resultset was returning TRUE

2008-01-04 Version 1.5.1 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Fixed : OCI_Execute() crashed with a ref cursor bind variable (since v1.5.0, arghhh !! )
    * Fixed : OCI_ExecuteStmtFmt() was returning FALSE even on success

2008-01-04 Version 1.5.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Added proper RAW support

      - OCI_GetRaw()  
      - OCI_GetRaw2()    
      - OCI_BindRaw()
      - OCI_BindArrayOfRaws()
 
    * Added Array interface support for fast bulk operations
    
      - OCI_BindArraySetSize()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfInts()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfStrings()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfDoubles()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfDates()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfTimestamps()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfIntervals()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfLobs()    
      - OCI_BindArrayOfFiles()

    * Timestamps and intervals
    
      - Added support in OCI_Immediate() and OCI_ImmediateFmt()    
      - Added support in OCI_GetColumnSQLType()

    * Added OCILIB versioning constants
    
      - OCILIB_MAJOR_VERSION     
      - OCILIB_MINOR_VERSION 

    * Miscellanious modifications and fixes

      - Modified : Resetting bind indicators to not null after each execute call
      - Fixed    : Column retrieving from name is NOW case insensitive 
      - Modified : Hash table key comparison is NOW case insensitive
      - Added    : ChangeLog content to HTML documentation Main page

2007-12-29 Version 1.4.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Resulset values can be retrieved now by column names

      - OCI_GetInt2()    
      - OCI_GetString2()    
      - OCI_GetDouble2()    
      - OCI_GetDate2()    
      - OCI_GetStatement2()   
      - OCI_GetLob2()    
      - OCI_GetLong2()    
      - OCI_GetTimestamp2()    
      - OCI_GetInterval2()    
      - OCI_GetColumn2()    
      - OCI_GetColumnIndex()

    * Added OCI version detection
    
      - Now, OCI versions are detected at compile and runtime    
      - OCI_GetOCICompileVersion()    
      - OCI_GetOCIRuntimeVersion()

    * Added Timestamp datatype support
    
      - Type OCI_Timestamp    
      - OCI_TimestampAssign()    
      - OCI_TimestampCheck()     
      - OCI_TimestampCompare()     
      - OCI_TimestampConstruct()     
      - OCI_TimestampConvert()     
      - OCI_TimestampFromText()     
      - OCI_TimestampGetDate()    
      - OCI_TimestampGetTime()    
      - OCI_TimestampGetTimeZoneName()     
      - OCI_TimestampGetTimeZoneOffset()    
      - OCI_TimestampIntervalAdd()    
      - OCI_TimestampIntervalSub()
      - OCI_TimestampSubtract()    
      - OCI_TimestampSysTimeStamp()    
      - OCI_TimestampToText()    
      - OCI_BindTimestamp()    
      - OCI_GetTimestamp()
  
    * Added Interval datatype support
    
      - Type OCI_Interval    
      - OCI_IntervalCreate()    
      - OCI_IntervalFree()    
      - OCI_IntervalAssign()    
      - OCI_IntervalCheck()     
      - OCI_IntervalCompare()    
      - OCI_IntervalFromText()    
      - OCI_IntervalToText()    
      - OCI_IntervalFromTimeZone()    
      - OCI_IntervalGetDaySecond()     
      - OCI_IntervalGetYearMonth()     
      - OCI_IntervalSetDaySecond()   
      - OCI_IntervalSetYearMonth()    
      - OCI_IntervalAdd()    
      - OCI_IntervalSubtract()    
      - OCI_BindInterval()    
      - OCI_GetInterval()

    * Added Hash tables support
    
      - type OCI_HashTable    
      - OCI_CreateHashTable()    
      - OCI_FreeHashTable()    
      - OCI_HashGetValue()    
      - OCI_HashGetInt()    
      - OCI_HashGetPointer()    
      - OCI_HashAddString()    
      - OCI_HashAddInt()    
      - OCI_HashAddPointer()    
      - OCI_HashLookup()    
      - OCI_HashGetString()

    * Added OCILIB C source compatibility for C++    
    
      - Modified OCI_ALLOC() macro to add cast to malloc    
      - Added few cast required the C++    
      - Modified internal OCI_ErrorHandler() in order to call handler after reset of connection 
        status for C++ exceptions    
      - Modified : now, OCILIB C source perfectly compiles with a C++ compiler

    * Miscellanious modifications and fixes
    
      - Modified OCI_Variant type (from private to public scope)    
      - Modified : Every call to execute frees previous resultsets    
      - Fixed : OCI_FileIsEqual() was not exported    
      - Fixed : implicit conversion to int and double (OCI_GetInt() and OCI_GetDouble()) from a text value 
        column (OCI_CDT_TEXT) where not implemented in unicode    
      - Modified OCILIB descriptors ( OCI_XXXFree() ) to correct some leeks and for compatibility with C++ 
        destructors (for OCILIB++ that coming soon)    
      - Modified : Mapping text macros scope moved from private to public for OCILIB++    
      - Changed the statement types from OCI_STMT_XXX to OCI_CST_XXX    
      - OCI_DateAssign() : the two handles were not in good order 

2007-12-18 Version 1.3.1 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

  * Fixed sourceforge bug #1853369
    
      - Committed updates from others transactions where not seen until the next OCI_Commit() call due
        to the default transaction object mode.    
      - Mode changed from OCI_TRANS_SERIALIZABLE to OCI_TRANS_READWRITE

    * Fixed missing Unicode _T() macros in demo source file on Microsoft Windows platform
    * Fixed demo project on Microsoft Windows platform && Visual Studio (ocilib source was linked to exe
      instead of using Dlls)

2007-12-06 Version 1.3.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Added Full BFILE support
    
      - Added Type OCI_File    
      - Added OCI_FileCreate()    
      - Added OCI_FileFree()    
      - Added OCI_FileSeek()    
      - Added OCI_FileGetOffset()    
      - Added OCI_FileRead()    
      - Added OCI_FileGetType()    
      - Added OCI_FileGetSize()    
      - Added OCI_FileExists()    
      - Added OCI_FileSetName()    
      - Added OCI_FileGetDirectory()    
      - Added OCI_FileGetName()    
      - Added OCI_FileOpen()    
      - Added OCI_FileIsOpen()    
      - Added OCI_FileClose()    
      - Added OCI_FileIsEqual()

    * Extended Lob support
    
      - Added OCI_LobCopyFromFile()    
      - Added OCI_LobAppend()    
      - Added OCI_LobOpen()    
      - Added OCI_LobClose()    
      - Added OCI_LobIsEqual()    
      - Modified OCI_lobGetLenght()    
      - Modified OCI_lobAppend()   
        
    * Added Pre-fetch support        
    
      - OCI_SetPrefetchSize()    
      - OCI_GetPrefetchSize()

    * Added Support for describing database objects (currently only table support)
    
      - Added Type OCI_Schema    
      - Added OCI_SchemaGetTable()    
      - Added OCI_SchemaGetTableColumnCount()    
      - Added OCI_SchemaGetTableColumn()    
      - Added OCI_SchemaFreeTable()
            
    * Modified and extended Column info API    
    
      - Modified type OCI_Column from private to public handle    
      - Added OCI_GetColumn()    
      - Added OCI_GetColumnSQLType()    
      - Added OCI_GetColumnPrecision()    
      - Added OCI_GetColumnScale()    
      - Added OCI_GetColumnNullable()    
      - Modified OCI_GetColumnType()    
      - Modified OCI_GetColumnName()    
      - Modified OCI_GetColumnSize()
        
    * Extended support for formatted functions
    
      - OCI_SqlImmediate() supports now ouput for OCI_Date*, OCI_Long*, OCI_Lob*, OCI_File*, OCI_Statement*
 
    * Fixed OCILIB Objects binding:
    
      - for LOB, FILE and REF Cursors handles    
      - corrected SQL type for CLOB
                
    * Miscellaneous internal fixes
    
      - Fixed dsizeof() macro    
      - OCI_Cleanup() : fixed memory leak if object not explicitly freed (since internal version 0.9)     
      - OCIEnvCreate() call : OCI_THREADED was missing (since internal version 0.9)    
      - OCIEnvCreate() call : OCI_OJBECT was missing in unicode mode (since internal version 0.9)     
      - Fixed memory leak when fetching OCI_Statement * Resultset columns
        
    * Miscellanious internal modifications
    
      - Modification of column buffer internal implementation (use of unions)
      - Modified ocistrdup()    
      - Modified scope of few local functions (static where missing)    
      - Redefinition of local structure members from type 'int' to 'boolean'    
      - Updated logical tests to TRUE/FALSE for clarity     
      - Now, Statement handle fetched from a cursor column MUST not be released as in earlier versions

    * Performances improvement        
    
      - Statement handle is now allocated at on Statement creation and not at every prepare call
         
    * Updated Documentation
          
2007-12-01 Version 1.2.1 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@fsinet.fr

    * Updated Documentation
    
      - Regeneration from source without macro expansion to make it cleaner    
      - Update of Charset support section

    * Fixed sourceforge bug #1841998
    
      - For string based output columns, the last character was truncated because not enough memory was 
        allocated (due to an bad copy/paste operation !)

2007-11-25 Version 1.2.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Added Documentation
    
      - Full API documentation 
      - Html help     
      - Embedded documentation in source code

    * Added Global Transaction support
    
      - Added OCI_Transaction structure and handle 
      - Added OCI_XID structure and handle    
      - Added OCI_CreateTransaction()    
      - Added OCI_FreeTransaction()    
      - Added OCI_PrepareTransaction()    
      - Added OCI_ForgetTransaction()    
      - Added OCI_ResumeTransaction()    
      - Added OCI_TransactionGetMode()    
      - Added OCI_TransactionGetTimeout()    
      - Added OCI_GetTransaction()
      - Added OCI_SetTransaction()    
      - Modified OCI_StartTransaction() 

    * Modified Lob support
    
      - Removed OCI_LobGetCacheMode()    
      - Modified OCI_LobInit() (del cache param)    
      - Modified OCI_Lob (del cache member)    
      - Added OCI_LobErase()

    * Modified Error Handling
    
      - Removed OCI_GetErrorCode()    
      - Added OCI_ErrorGetOCICode()    
      - Added OCI_ErrorGetInternalCode()

2007-11-12 Version 1.1.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Modified : the library comes with 2 archives : GNU et Win32
    * Modified : interfaces and some functions calls
    * Added    : use of GNU install tools
    * Added    : options for building the library
    * Fixed    : unicode support

2007-10-19 Version 1.0.0 Vincent Rogier vince_rogier@yahoo.fr

    * Added    : First public release.