ruby-informix 0.4.0 → 0.5.0
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- data/Changelog +37 -1
- data/README +4 -2
- data/informix.c +1606 -658
- data/informix.ec +1176 -323
- metadata +4 -3
data/Changelog
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0.5.0 12/27/2006
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New features:
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* Easier to install
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* BigDecimal accepted for input parameters
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* BigDecimal used for instantiating DECIMAL and MONEY values
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* Cursor, Statement, Slob and Database accept an optional block that
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automatically frees resources after execution.
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Based on ideas and pseudo-code by
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Edwin Fine <emofine at finecomputerconsultants dot com> and me.
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* Database#slob shortcut for creating Slob objects.
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* Slob::Stat class implemented. Returned by Slob#stat, represents the
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SLOB status. Methods: atime, ctime, mtime, refcnt and size. Includes
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Comparable.
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* Slob new methods: <<, rewind, stat, pos, pos=, lock, unlock,
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estbytes, extsz, flags, maxbytes, sbspace,
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extsz=, flags=,
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atime, ctime, mtime, refcnt and size
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* Thread safe
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Remarks:
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* DECIMAL and MONEY columns are no longer returned as Float. BigDecimal
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is used instead.
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* If there was an error reading (ifx_lo_read) an SLOB, memory
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allocated for the read buffer was not freed. Noticed by
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Edwin Fine <emofine at finecomputerconsultants dot com>
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* maxbytes option was ignored when creating an Slob object
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* Documentation for Slob mentioned an RDRW constant, but it actually
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is RDWR.
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Special thanks to Guy Bowerman, Jonathan Leffler and Logan Capaldo for their
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feedback and help.
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0.4.0 12/13/2006
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* changing free() for xfree() avoids crashes on Windows XP SP1. Noticed
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by Dinko <dsrkoc at helix hr>
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by Dinko <dsrkoc at helix dot hr>
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0.2.0 04/24/2006
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data/README
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All built-in data types are supported, except interval. As you would expect,
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numeric, string and boolean data types are mapped to their respective objects
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in Ruby; DATE, DATETIME and NULL are mapped to Date,
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in Ruby; DECIMAL/MONEY, DATE, DATETIME and NULL are mapped to BigDecimal, Date,
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Time and nil respectively.
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The notable exception is TEXT/BYTE columns, where Ruby/Informix expects an
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IO-based (File) or IO-like (StringIO) object as input, and returns an String
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4. Recommendations
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* use #drop for prepared statements and cursors
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* use #drop for prepared statements and cursors or use them with blocks,
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to release Informix resources.
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* you can optimize cursor execution by changing the fetch and insert buffers,
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setting the environment variable FET_BUF_SIZE to up to 32767 for Informix 9.x,
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or BIG_FET_BUF_SIZE for Informix 10.x
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