svn commit - mysqldoc@docsrva: r3982 - trunk/refman-common

[mcbrown]

Author: mcbrown
Date: 2006-11-20 13:14:56 +0100 (Mon, 20 Nov 2006)
New Revision: 3982

Log:
Adding the 5.0.8 changelog



Modified:
   trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml


Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml
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--- trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml	2006-11-19 04:48:14 UTC (rev 3981)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml	2006-11-20 12:14:56 UTC (rev 3982)
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   <title>MySQL Connector/ODBC (MyODBC) Change History</title>
 
+  <section id="myodbc-news-5-0-8">
+
+    <title>Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 (17 November 2006)</title>
+
+    <para>
+      Functionality added or changed:
+    </para>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Made distinction between
+          <literal>CHAR</literal>/<literal>BINARY</literal> (and VAR
+          versions).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Wildcards now support escaped chars and underscore matching
+          (needed to link tables with underscores in access).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Also made <literal>SQL_DESC_NAME</literal> only fill in the
+          name if there was a data pointer given, otherwise just the
+          length.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed display size to be length if max length isn’t
+          available.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <para>
+      Bugs fixed:
+    </para>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Length now used when handling bind parameter (needed in
+          particular for <literal>SQL_WCHAR</literal>) - this enables
+          updating char data in MS Access.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed string length to chars, not bytes, returned by
+          SQLGetDiagRec.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed using wrong pointer for
+          <literal>SQL_MAX_DRIVER_CONNECTIONS</literal> in
+          <literal>SQLGetInfo</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed binding using <literal>SQL_C_LONG</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Allow SQLDescribeCol to be called to retrieve the length of
+          the column name, but not the name itself.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fix size return from <literal>SQLDescribeCol</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed hanlding of numeric pointers in SQLColAttribute.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed type returned for <literal>MYSQL_TYPE_LONG</literal> to
+          <literal>SQL_INTEGER</literal> instead of
+          <literal>SQL_TINYINT</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Fixed MDiagnostic to use correct v2/v3 error codes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Set default return to <literal>SQL_SUCCESS</literal> if
+          nothing is done for <literal>SQLSpecialColumns</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Updated retrieval of descriptor fields to use the right
+          pointer types.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+  </section>
+
   <section id="myodbc-news-5-0-7">
 
     <title>Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.7 (8 Novebmer 2006)</title>