svn commit - mysqldoc@docsrva: r7163 - trunk/refman-common

[mcbrown]

Author: mcbrown
Date: 2007-07-20 14:09:08 +0200 (Fri, 20 Jul 2007)
New Revision: 7163

Log:
Updating Connectors: 

C/J: 5.0.7 release date
C/NET: 5.1.2 release date
C/ODBC: 5.1.17 changelog sync, including

Dev Bugs: 

Bug #12918
Bug #28662
Bug #27315
Bug #13766
Bug #10562

Adding C/ODBC 5.1.18 changelog stub

C/ODBC Changes: 

Adding new command options to options table
Minor tweaks



Modified:
   trunk/refman-common/connector-j.xml
   trunk/refman-common/connector-net.xml
   trunk/refman-common/connector-odbc.xml
   trunk/refman-common/news-connector-j.xml
   trunk/refman-common/news-connector-net.xml
   trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml


Modified: trunk/refman-common/connector-j.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/connector-j.xml	2007-07-20 11:55:37 UTC (rev 7162)
+++ trunk/refman-common/connector-j.xml	2007-07-20 12:09:08 UTC (rev 7163)
Changed blocks: 1, Lines Added: 7, Lines Deleted: 8; 1225 bytes

@@ -1208,22 +1208,21 @@
             updatable result sets) methods to save changes back to the
             database.
           </para>
-          
+
           <formalpara role="mnmas-kb">
-            
+
             <title>MySQL Enterprise</title>
-            
+
             <para>
               MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information
               about type conversion in the Knowledge Base article,
-              <ulink url="https://kb.mysql.com/view.php?id=4929">
-                Type Conversions Supported by MySQL Connector/J</ulink>.
-              To subscribe to MySQL Enterprise see
+              <ulink url="https://kb.mysql.com/view.php?id=4929"> Type
+              Conversions Supported by MySQL Connector/J</ulink>. To
+              subscribe to MySQL Enterprise see
               <ulink url="&base-url-enterprise;advisors.html"/>.
             </para>
-            
+
           </formalpara>
-          
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>


Modified: trunk/refman-common/connector-net.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/connector-net.xml	2007-07-20 11:55:37 UTC (rev 7162)
+++ trunk/refman-common/connector-net.xml	2007-07-20 12:09:08 UTC (rev 7163)
Changed blocks: 3, Lines Added: 29, Lines Deleted: 29; 3875 bytes

@@ -1727,25 +1727,25 @@
         <para>
           MySQL currently does not support any method of canceling a
           pending or executing operation. All commands issued against a
-          MySQL server will execute until completion or until an exception
-          occurs.
+          MySQL server will execute until completion or until an
+          exception occurs.
         </para>
 
         <formalpara role="mnmas-kb">
-          
+
           <title>MySQL Enterprise</title>
-          
+
           <para>
             MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information
-            about CommandTimeout in the Knowledge Base article, 
-            <ulink url="https://kb.mysql.com/view.php?id=4920">
-            Why CommandTimeout is not Supported</ulink>. 
-            Access to the MySQL Knowledge Base collection of articles is one of
-            the advantages of subscribing to MySQL Enterprise.
-            For more information see
+            about CommandTimeout in the Knowledge Base article,
+            <ulink url="https://kb.mysql.com/view.php?id=4920"> Why
+            CommandTimeout is not Supported</ulink>. Access to the MySQL
+            Knowledge Base collection of articles is one of the
+            advantages of subscribing to MySQL Enterprise. For more
+            information see
             <ulink url="&base-url-enterprise;advisors.html"/>.
           </para>
-          
+
         </formalpara>
 
       </section>

@@ -2538,21 +2538,21 @@
           whenever the <literal>MySqlDataAdapter.SelectCommand</literal>
           value of the <literal>MySqlDataAdapter</literal> changes.
         </para>
-        
+
         <formalpara role="mnmas-kb">
-          
+
           <title>MySQL Enterprise</title>
-          
+
           <para>
-            MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information
-            on this topic in the Knowledge Base article, 
+            MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information on
+            this topic in the Knowledge Base article,
             <ulink url="https://kb.mysql.com/view.php?id=4922">
-              Understanding MySqlCommandBuilder and the LastOneWins Setting
-            </ulink>. For information about
-            subscribing to MySQL Enterprise see
+            Understanding MySqlCommandBuilder and the LastOneWins
+            Setting </ulink>. For information about subscribing to MySQL
+            Enterprise see
             <ulink url="&base-url-enterprise;advisors.html"/>.
           </para>
-          
+
         </formalpara>
 
       </section>

@@ -3461,20 +3461,20 @@
         </para>
 
         <formalpara role="mnmas-kb">
-          
+
           <title>MySQL Enterprise</title>
-          
+
           <para>
-            MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information
-            on this subject in the Knowledge Base article, 
+            MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information on
+            this subject in the Knowledge Base article,
             <ulink url="https://kb.mysql.com/view.php?id=4918">
-            Understanding and Using Connection Pooling</ulink>.
-            Access to the MySQL Knowledge Base collection of articles
-            is one of the advantages of subscribing to MySQL Enterprise.
-            To subscribe see
+            Understanding and Using Connection Pooling</ulink>. Access
+            to the MySQL Knowledge Base collection of articles is one of
+            the advantages of subscribing to MySQL Enterprise. To
+            subscribe see
             <ulink url="&base-url-enterprise;advisors.html"/>.
           </para>
-          
+
         </formalpara>
 
         <para>


Modified: trunk/refman-common/connector-odbc.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/connector-odbc.xml	2007-07-20 11:55:37 UTC (rev 7162)
+++ trunk/refman-common/connector-odbc.xml	2007-07-20 12:09:08 UTC (rev 7163)
Changed blocks: 2, Lines Added: 21, Lines Deleted: 1; 1899 bytes

@@ -2939,7 +2939,7 @@
               <literal>Initial Statement</literal> defines an SQL
               statement that will be executed when the connection to
               MySQL is opened. You can use this to set MySQL options for
-              your connection, such as disabling autocommit. 
+              your connection, such as disabling autocommit.
             </para>
           </listitem>
 

@@ -3601,6 +3601,26 @@
                 NULL</literal></link> This option was enabled in
                 Connector/ODBC 3.5.13.</entry>
             </row>
+            <row>
+              <entry>16777216</entry>
+              <entry>Flag Zero Date to Min</entry>
+              <entry>Translates zero dates
(<literal>XXXX-00-00</literal>) into the minimum
+                date values supported by ODBC,
+                <literal>XXXX-01-01</literal>. This resolves an issue
+                where some statement swill not work because the date
+                returned and the minimumd ODBC date value are
+                incompatible.</entry>
+            </row>
+            <row>
+              <entry>33554432</entry>
+              <entry>Flag Min Date to Zero</entry>
+              <entry>Translates the minimum ODBC date value
(<literal>XXXX-01-01</literal>)
+                to the zero date format supported by MySQL
+                (<literal>XXXX-00-00</literal>). This resolves an issue
+                where some statement swill not work because the date
+                returned and the minimumd ODBC date value are
+                incompatible.</entry>
+            </row>
           </tbody>
         </tgroup>
       </informaltable>


Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-connector-j.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-connector-j.xml	2007-07-20 11:55:37 UTC (rev 7162)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-connector-j.xml	2007-07-20 12:09:08 UTC (rev 7163)
Changed blocks: 2, Lines Added: 2, Lines Deleted: 2; 846 bytes

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
 
     <section id="cj-news-5-0-7">
 
-      <title>Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7 (Not yet released)</title>
+      <title>Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7 (20 July 2007)</title>
 
       <para>
         Functionality added or changed:

@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
 
         <listitem>
           <para>
-            The driver will will now automatically set
+            The driver will now automatically set
             <literal>useServerPrepStmts</literal> to
             <literal>true</literal> when
             <literal>useCursorFetch</literal> has been set to


Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-connector-net.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-connector-net.xml	2007-07-20 11:55:37 UTC (rev 7162)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-connector-net.xml	2007-07-20 12:09:08 UTC (rev 7163)
Changed blocks: 1, Lines Added: 1, Lines Deleted: 1; 610 bytes

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
   <section id="connector-net-news-5.1.2">
 
-    <title>Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 5.1.2 (Not yet
released)</title>
+    <title>Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 5.1.2 (18 June
2007)</title>
 
     <para role="release-level">
       This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered


Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml	2007-07-20 11:55:37 UTC (rev 7162)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-myodbc.xml	2007-07-20 12:09:08 UTC (rev 7163)
Changed blocks: 4, Lines Added: 60, Lines Deleted: 5; 4396 bytes

@@ -862,10 +862,40 @@
 
   </section>
 
+<section id="myodbc-news-3-51-18">
+  <title>Changes in Connector/ODBC 3.51.17 (Not yet released)</title>
+
+<para>Functionality added or changed:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+  <listitem><para>When connecting to a specific database using the DSN, the
+    system tables from the <literal>mysql</literal> database are no longer
+    also available. (Bug #28662)</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+  
+  </section>
   <section id="myodbc-news-3-51-17">
 
     <title>Changes in Connector/ODBC 3.51.17 (14 July 2007)</title>
 
+<para>Platform specific notes:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>  <para>There are no binary packages for Microsoft Windows x64
Edition.
+  </para> </listitem>
+<listitem>  <para>The Mac OS X binary packages are only provided as tarballs,
there is no
+  installer.</para></listitem>
+<listitem>  <para>There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC
because Apple
+  does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.
+  </para></listitem>
+<listitem>  <para>The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the
GUI bits because
+  of problems building Qt on that platform.
+  </para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>The binary packages for Sun Solaris are only provided as
tarballs, not
+  the PKG format.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+    
+    
     <para>
       Functionality added or changed:
     </para>

@@ -875,10 +905,19 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>
           It is now possible to specify a different character set as
-          part of the DSN or connection string. (Bug #6667)
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-
+          part of the DSN or connection string.  This must be used instead of
+          the <literal>SET NAMES</literal> statement. You can also configure
+          the character set value from the GUI configuration. (Bug #6667, Bug
+          #9498)
+        </para></listitem>
+        
+        <listitem><para>The setup library has been split into its own RPM
package, to allow
+        installing the driver itself with no GUI
dependencies.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Dis-allow NULL ptr for null indicator when calling
SQLGetData()
+        if value is null. Now returns SQL_ERROR w/state
22002.</para></listitem>
+<listitem>        <para>Fixed calling convention ptr and wrong free in
<command>myodbc3i</command>, and fixed
+        the null terminating (was only one, not two) when writing DSN to
string.</para></listitem>
+  
     </itemizedlist>
 
     <para>

@@ -887,6 +926,21 @@
 
     <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>Fixed a problem where the GUI would crash when configuring or
+  removing a System or User DSN. (Bug #27315)</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>When inserting a large <literal>BLOB</literal>
field,
+Connector/ODBC would crash due to a memory allocation error. (Bug
#10562)</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para><literal>myodbc3i</literal> did not
correctly format driver info, which could cause the
+        installation to fail. (Bug #29709)</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para> Added a new DSN option
(<literal>FLAG_ZERO_DATE_TO_MIN</literal>) to retrieve
<literal>XXXX-00-00</literal>
+        dates as the minimum allowed ODBC date
(<literal>XXXX-01-01</literal>). Added another
+        option (<literal>FLAG_MIN_DATE_TO_ZERO</literal>) to mirror this but
for bound parameters.
+        <literal>FLAG_MIN_DATE_TO_ZERO</literal> only changes
<literal>0000-01-01</literal> to <literal>0000-00-00</literal>.
(Bug
+        #13766)</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>Correctly return error if
<literal>SQLBindCol</literal> is called with an
+        invalid column.</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>Fixed possible crash if
<literal>SQLBindCol()</literal> was not called before
<literal>SQLSetPos()</literal>.</para></listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>
           Fixed error handling of out-of-memory and bad connections in

@@ -906,7 +960,8 @@
 
       <listitem>
         <para>
-          Connector/ODBC crashed with Crystal Reports. (Bug #23816)
+          Connector/ODBC crashed with Crystal Reports due to a rproblem with
+          <literal>SQLProcedures()</literal>. (Bug #28316)
         </para>
       </listitem>