PEAR: Latest releases for pgc

MDB2 2.5.0b1

2008-03-15T04:27:39-05:00

- request #12731: added truncateTable() in the Manager module
- request #12732: added vacuum() in the Manager module for OPTIMIZE/VACUUM TABLE abstraction
- request #12800: added alterDatabase() in the Manager module [afz]
- fixed bug #12924: correctly handle internal expected errors even with custom error handling
- fixed bug #12991: new error code in errorInfo() [afz]
- added databaseExists() method [afz]
- request #13106: added unixtimestamp() in the Function module
- added max_identifiers_length option

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)
- add a getTableFieldsDefinitions() method to be used in tableInfo()
- drop ILIKE from matchPattern() and instead add a second parameter to
handle case sensitivity with arbitrary operators
- handle LOBs in buffered result sets (Request #8793)

MDB2 2.5.0a2

2007-12-06T15:15:09-05:00

- fixed bug #12358: E_STRICT changes in latest alpha broke PHP4 compatibility
- fixed bug #12351: wrong case for function PEAR::isError() in the Reverse module
[was: IsError()]
- fixed bug #12530: MDB2_Extended::autoPrepare() gives error if $types is null
- request #12012: added charset/collation support in createDatabase() for the
drivers that support this feature
- added bindname_format option (this is the regexp used to recognize named
placeholders in prepared statements)

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)
- add a getTableFieldsDefinitions() method to be used in tableInfo()
- drop ILIKE from matchPattern() and instead add a second parameter to
handle case sensitivity with arbitrary operators
- handle LOBs in buffered result sets (Request #8793)

MDB2 2.5.0a1

2007-10-28T15:25:58-05:00

- fixed bug #10024: Security fix for LOBs. Added an option to turn lob_allow_url_include off by default
- fixed bug #11179: prepared statements with named placeholders fail if extra values are provided
- request #11297: added support for "schema.table" (or "owner.table") notation in the Reverse module
- initial support for FOREIGN KEY and CHECK constraints in the Reverse and Manager modules
- fixed bug #11428: propagate quote() errors with invalid data types
- added new test cases in the test suite
- added LENGTH() function in the Function module
- fixed bug #11612: raiseError() must be compatible with PEAR::raiseError() [PHP6]
- fixed bug #11790: avoid array_diff() because it has a memory leak in PHP 5.1.x
- fixed bug #11906: quoteIdentifier fails for names with dots
- fixed bug #11975: Extended::autoExecute() does not work with Oracle when using LOBs
(patch by Pieter Meulen, van der)
- fixed some E_STRICT errors with PHP5
- fixed bug #12083: createTable() in the Manager module now returns MDB2_OK on success,
as documented
- fixed bug #12246: wrong check in MDB2::isStatement() (thanks to zaa@zaa.pp.ru)

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)
- add a getTableFieldsDefinitions() method to be used in tableInfo()
- drop ILIKE from matchPattern() and instead add a second parameter to
handle case sensitivity with arbitrary operators
- add charset and collation support to field declaration in all drivers
- handle LOBs in buffered result sets (Request #8793)

MDB2 2.4.1

2007-05-03T14:55:12-05:00

- fixed bug #10407: propagate errors in MDB2_Statement_Common::execute()
- fixed bug #10452: error in getDeclaration() with custom datatype_map and no
datatype_map_callback function
- fixed bug #10521: quote($val,'decimal') and quote($val,'float') pass unsafe characters
- return length as "precision,scale" for NUMERIC and DECIMAL fields in mapNativeDatatype()
- fixed bug #10537: safer check for valid MDB2 connection in singleton() [fornax]
- fixed bug #10598: MDB2::singleton() not working in some rare conditions [fornax]
- in getTableIndexDefinition() and getTableConstraintDefinition() in the Reverse
module, also return the field position in the index/constraint
- exec() now returns a reference instead of a copy to prevent memory leaks
- request #10787: MDB2_Driver_Common::$phptype and $dbsyntax properties are now public

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), LENGTH() etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for FOREIGN KEYs and CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)
- add a getTableFieldsDefinitions() method to be used in tableInfo()
- drop ILIKE from matchPattern() and instead add a second parameter to
handle case sensitivity with arbitrary operators
- add charset and collation support to field declaration in all drivers
- handle LOBs in buffered result sets (Request #8793)

MDB2 2.4.0

2007-03-13T16:53:44-05:00

- propagate errors in getTableFieldDefinition() in the Reverse module
- internally use MDB2::classExists() wrapper instead of directly calling class_exists()
- fixed bug #9502: query result misbehaves when the number of returned columns
is greater than the number of passed types
- fixed bug #9748: Table name is not quoted in Extended.php buildManipSQL()
- fixed bug #9800: when the php extension for the driver fails to load, the
error is not propagated correctly and the script dies
- propagate errors in the Datatype module
- implemented guid() in the Function module [globally unique identifier]
(thanks to mario dot adam at schaeffler dot com)
- fixed bug #4854: Oracle Easy Connect syntax only works with array DSN
- fixed bug #10105: inTransaction() was returning an incorrect value after a call
to disconnect() or __destruct()
- implemented a fallback mechanism within getTableIndexDefinition() and
getTableConstraintDefinition() in the Reverse module to ignore the 'idxname_format'
option and use the index name as provided in case of failure before returning
an error
- added a 'nativetype_map_callback' option to map native data declarations back to
custom data types (thanks to Andrew Hill).
- fixed bug #10234 and bug #10233: MDB2_Driver_Datatype_Common::mapNativeDatatype()
must ensure that it returns the correct length value, or null
- added support for TEMPORARY tables (patch by Andrew Hill)
- phpdoc fixes
- fixed tests to be compatible with PHP4
- added new tests, including some MDB2 internals tests by Andrew Hill and Monique Szpak

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), LENGTH() etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for FOREIGN KEYs and CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)
- add a getTableFieldsDefinitions() method to be used in tableInfo()
- drop ILIKE from matchPattern() and instead add a second parameter to
handle case sensitivity with arbitrary operators
- add charset and collation support to field declaration in all drivers
- handle LOBs in buffered result sets (Request #8793)

MDB2 2.3.0

2006-11-03T08:12:14-05:00

- added charset and collation support to field declaration
- added SQL comments and quoted identifier handling inside prepared statement parser
- expanded length/scale support for numeric types (Request #7170)
- added statement_format option to make it possible to define the name used for
native statements if supported
- fixed bug when setting MDB2_PREPARE_RESULT in autoExecute()
- fixed notice in exec() call in autoExecute()
- reversed if logic in MDB2::fileExists checking to be more fool proof with
safe_mode restrictions (Bug #8296)
- moved CREATE TABLE query generation in a separate method for reuse in the drivers
- added testLOBRead to test multiple LOB reads
- fixed getColumnNames() optional parameter handling (Bug #8857)
- phpdoc fix for fetchCol/fetchAll
- added an extra if in the autoExecute method of the Extended driver (Bug #8878)
- expanded tableInfo() tests
- expanded prepare() tests
- fix the incorrect use of currID() for lastInsertID() emulation (Bug #9107)
- add test for lastInsertID()
- also output php version in test results
- added supported 'new_link'
- dropped use of track_errors because 5.2.0 causes php_errormsg to not get
populated if a custom error handler is set and it was causing issues for
safe_mode users anyways
- added some error handling into the bindValues()/bindParams() methods (Bug #9133)
- bindValue() does not need values by reference
- fix issue in execute() when parameter is a scalar integer of 0 (Bug #9158)
- implemented stream_stat() method (Bug #9092)
- better deal with non scalar arguments in test helper function as 5.2.0 explodes otherwise
- extracted _skipDelimitedStrings() method from prepare()
- added test for _skipDelimitedStrings() method
- migrated to package.xml version 2

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- expand charset support in schema management and result set handling (Request #4666)
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), LENGTH() etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for FOREIGN KEYs and CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- explore use of install groups (pear install MDB2#mysql)
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)
- add a getTableFieldsDefinitions() method to be used in tableInfo()
- drop ILIKE from matchPattern() and instead add a second parameter to
handle case sensitivity with arbitrary operators
- add charset and collation support to field declaration in all drivers
- handle LOBs in buffered result sets (Request #8793)

MDB2 2.2.2

2006-09-03T03:03:24-05:00

- flip positions property array in prepared statement objects to make it
possible to optionally use the same named placeholder in multiple places
inside a single prepared statement
- expanded prepare tests to cover more edge cases
- renamed valid_types property to valid_default_values in the Datatype module

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- expand charset support in schema management and result set handling (Request #4666)
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- expand length/scale support for numeric types (Request #7170)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), LENGTH() etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for FOREIGN KEYs and CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add a package2.xml and explore use of install groups (pear install MDB2#mysql)
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected
- handle implicit commits (like for DDL) in any affected driver (mysql, sqlite..)

MDB2 2.2.1

2006-08-21T14:23:26-05:00

- fixed missing code in tableInfo() (Bug #8289)
- fixed handling of indexes and constraints and types in tableInfo() (fixes BC break)
- do not set nested transaction error if error is expected
- explictly default to NULL when the column is NULLable and no default is set
(related to Bug #8359)
- added support for case insensitive matching via ILIKE in matchPattern()
- added getAsKeyword() for generating "AS" keyword as required by the RDBMS
- return an error if a named placeholder name is used twice inside a single statement
- add support for multi column PRIMARY KEYs in createTable()
- added lower() and upper() to the function module
- moved escaping tests to datatype tests
- added summary at the end of a test run for each RDBMS
- explicitly pass the php_type var in all internal loadModule() calls
- added support for 'primary' option in createTable()
- expanded NULL tests
- fixed handling return values when disable_query is set in _doQuery() and _execute()
- check if safe_mode is enabled in fileExists() to determine what algo to use (Bug #8296)
- added a test case for updating LOBs
- added rtrim test case for LOBs
- if result types are specified only rtrim() type 'text' fields (otherwise
it will mean that for some drivers LOB's would get rtrimmed)
- phpdoc fixes to the convertResult*() methods
- added execParam() method and code tweaks for get*() methods in the Extended module
- removed redundant assertions when testing if a given feature is unsupported
- removed tests of portability off (users should just set the given portability
setting they want to test in their test_setup.php)

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- expand charset support in schema management and result set handling (Request #4666)
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- expand length/scale support for numeric types (Request #7170)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), LENGTH() etc.)
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add support for FOREIGN KEYs and CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results
- add a package2.xml and explore use of install groups (pear install MDB2#mysql)
- add support for full text index creation and querying
- add tests to check if the RDBMS specific handling with portability options
disabled behaves as expected

MDB2 2.2.0

2006-07-23T03:16:35-05:00

- added MDB2_AUTOQUERY_SELECT (Request #7817)
- added nested transaction support (inspired by ADODB's smart transactions) but
expanded to optionally use SAVEPOINTs *EXPERIMENTAL*
beginNestedTransaction(), completeNestedTransaction(),
failNestedTransaction(), getNestedTransactionError()
- inTransaction() will now return an integer with the nested transaction depth
if a nested transaction has been started
- added setTransactionIsolation()
- added savepoint support to beginTransaction(), commit() and rollback()
- added Native base class for consistency
- added missing colnum parameter to queryOne() [used by getOne()]
- added new tests for get*() Extended module methods
- fixed missing db variable from getValidTypes()
- added testing of a prepared statement with no parameters
- added handling of empty result sets to result set verification in the test suite
- oci8 and ibase (and possibly other rdbms) do not like freeing the statement
before reading the result set (Bug #8068):
* moved statement freeing after reading the result set in get*() Extended methods
* bypass prepared statement API for queries without parameters in autoExecute()
(this means you cannot use parameters with SELECT statements in autoExecute()
on the above mentioned platforms)
- use data type callback in getValidTypes()
- fixed identifier quoting in buildManipSQL() for SELECT statements (thx Kailoran)
- phpdoc and cosmetic fixes in limitQuery()
- added matchPattern() and patternEscapeString(), escapePattern() *EXPERIMENTAL*
- added ability to escape wildcard characters in escape() and quote()
- added debug() call at the end of a query/prepare/execute calling (Request #7933)
- added context array parameter to debug() and make use of it whereever sensible
- added optional method name parameter to raiseError() and use whereever possible
- added a new option "debug_expanded_output" which needs to be set to true to
get additional context information and to get "post" callback calls
- added testPortabilityOptions()
- set length of 8 and fixed for user_password in the test suite
- reworked tableInfo() to use a common implementation based on getTableFieldDefinition()
when a table name is passed (Bug #8124)
- disconnect after changing database/DSN (otherwise transactions may be left open)

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering
- expand charset support in schema management and result set handling (Request #4666)
- add EXPLAIN abstraction
- add cursor support along the lines of PDO (Request #3660 etc.)
- expand length/scale support for numeric types (Request #7170)
- add PDO based drivers, especially a driver to support SQLite 3 (Request #6907)
- add support to export/import in CSV format
- add more functions to the Function module (MD5(), IFNULL(), LENGTH() etc.)
- add support to generating "AS" keyword if required
- add support for database/table/row LOCKs
- add ActiveRecord implementation (probably as a separate package)
- add support for FOREIGN KEYs and CHECK (ENUM as possible mysql fallback) constraints
- extended to support for case insensitive matching via ILIKE/collate in matchPattern()
- generate STATUS file from test suite results and allow users to submit test results

MDB2 2.1.0

2006-06-15T08:42:16-05:00

- removed bogus code from execute()
- new test case for floats/decimals and locale
- reworked fix for float/decimal handling
- expanded scientific notation handling
- fixed several minor issues with the datatype tests
- removed use of "*" in all places in the test suite that are followed by a fetch
- tweaked handling of free() for prepared statements
- return error if a prepared statement is attempted to be free'ed or executed again
- added result_wrap_class param to limitQuery()
- added parameter to not quote return value of getBeforeId()
- added setCharset()
- enable transactions by default
- added decimal reverse engineering test
- fixed parameter order in assertions in reverse engineering fields tests
- generalized quoteIdentifier() with a property
- switched most array_key_exists() calls to !empty() to improve readability and performance
- fixed a few edge cases and potential warnings
- added ability to rewrite queries for query(), exec() and prepare() using a debug handler callback
- added 'datatype_map' option (Request #7797)
- added reverse parameter to getColumnNames()
- added 'datatype_map_callback' option
- added getValidTypes() method to handle additional types from the 'datatype_map' option
- set last_query in _execute() to prepared statement (Bug #7856)
- adding random function emulation to generate a float between 0 and 1
- explicitly fetch row id = 1 in LOB tests
- cosmetic fix to prepare() (Bug #7883)
- bumped PHP dependency to 4.3.2 because of LOB stream support

open todo items:
- handle autoincrement fields in alterTable()
- add support for ADODB style "smart transactions":
http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/docs-adodb.htm#ex11
- add length handling to LOB reverse engineering