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diff --git a/lib/odbc/doc/src/notes_history.xml b/lib/odbc/doc/src/notes_history.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2ce6b18201 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/odbc/doc/src/notes_history.xml @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> +<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> + +<chapter> + <header> + <copyright> + <year>2004</year><year>2009</year> + <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> + </copyright> + <legalnotice> + The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, + Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in + compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the + Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be + retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. + + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" + basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See + the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations + under the License. + + </legalnotice> + + <title>Older ODBC Release Notes</title> + <prepared>otp_appnotes</prepared> + <docno>nil</docno> + <date>nil</date> + <rev>nil</rev> + </header> + + <section> + <title>odbc 1.0.6</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Error handling has been enhanced and better documented</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4661</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>odbc 1.0.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Some error messages originating from the sql-driver where + corrupted so that odbc only returned the end of the error + message. This has now been fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4636 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The erlang odbc process will now die normally if a + connection can not be established. No connection no + process it is expected. And as the client has already + received the error message that would be the reason with + which the erlang process would be stopped, the supervisor + report will be superfluous. Naturally you may still get + supervisor reports if the erlang process is stopped for + any other reason than the above.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4639 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>odbc 1.0.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>API function commit/3 is now exported.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4593 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>If an ODBC API function times out it will cause the + client to exit with reason timeout. If this exit was + caught and the client continued using the connection, the + next request could get the answer meant for the + previously timed out request, this is no longer the case.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4606 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Improved error messages so that the implementation not + shall shine through.</p> + <p>Added possibility to let a connection return rows as + tuples instead of lists.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4605 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Scrollable cursors are nice but causes some overhead. For + some connections speed might be more important than + flexible data access and then you can disable scrollable + cursor for a connection, limiting the API but gaining + speed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4624</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>odbc 1.0</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>API function commit/3 is now exported.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4593 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>If an ODBC API function times out it will cause the + client to exit with reason timeout. If this exit was + caught and the client continued using the connection, the + next request could get the answer meant for the + previously timed out request, this is no longer the case.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4606 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Some error messages originating from the sql-driver where + corrupted so that odbc only returned the end of the error + message. This has now been fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4636 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The Erlang ODBC application consists of both Erlang and C + code. The C code is delivered as a precompiled executable + for windows and solaris. For the purpose of recompilation + or compiling on some other platform there is a Makefile + included.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4193 Aux Id: seq7190 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Expensive constructs such as lists:flatten/1, double + buffering and string compare has been replaced by more + efficient constructs or when possible totally eliminated.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4362</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>New API that has an Erlang/OTP touch and feel instead of + being a C-interface with Erlang syntax. The old interface + is deprecated and will be removed in release R10.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4498</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>API functions that became deprecated in version 0.9.1 has + been removed.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4499</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Improved error messages so that the implementation not + shall shine through.</p> + <p>Added possibility to let a connection return rows as + tuples instead of lists.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4605 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Scrollable cursors are nice but causes some overhead. For + some connections speed might be more important than + flexible data access and then you can disable scrollable + cursor for a connection, limiting the API but gaining + speed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4624</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The erlang odbc process will now die normally if a + connection can not be established. No connection no + process it is expected. And as the client has already + received the error message that would be the reason with + which the erlang process would be stopped, the supervisor + report will be superfluous. Naturally you may still get + supervisor reports if the erlang process is stopped for + any other reason than the above.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4639 Aux Id: seq7766 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Error handling has been enhanced and better documented</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4661</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>odbc 0.9.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Erlang ODBC application can handle floating point number + and has been improved with null value handling. The error + messages has been improved with STATE-information from SQL + function SQLGetDiagRec.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4192 Aux Id: seq7195 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>sqlCloseCursor have been replaced with sqlCloseHandle </p> + <p>(*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***) </p> + <p>Aux Id: seq7283 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> +</chapter> + + |