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: 0.0.13 (2002-04-16)

* Moved project to SourceForge.
* dbd_odbc: fixed bug in method columns (Norbert Gawor)
* dbd_proxy, proxyserver: upgraded to DBD API 0.2; fixed bug (Norbert Gawor)

: 0.0.12 (2001-12-28)

* dbd_oracle: added Database#columns method

* sql.rb: nil as argument in methods of DBI::SQL::BasicQuote::Coerce results in nil

* examples: added xmlgen.rb (library to generate XML; requires REXML)

* dbd_sqlrelay: updated version included (by David Muse).

* dbd_pg: fixed bug (displayed wrong default values) in method
  Database#columns (Joseph McDoanlds)

* dbd_oracle:
  * added ?-style parameter markers (don't use them together with :1 or :name style)

* dbd_sqlite: added type conversion

* sql.rb: added class PreparedStatement

* dbd_odbc: fixed method Database#tables, added Database#ping and columns, extended Statement#column_info

* dbi.rb: fetch_all and fetch_many now always return an Array ([] instead of nil)

* proxyserver.rb: moved into directory bin/proxyserver

* sqlsh.rb:
  * moved from examples to bin/commandline; install it by default
  * refactored source a lot
  * added \irb (start irb in context) and \rb (execute ruby command) commands
  * SQL statements end with ";" (over multiple lines) 

: 0.0.11 (2001-11-14)

* dbd_sqlite:   new DBD for SQLite

* dbd_sqlrelay: new DBD for SQLRelay

* dbd_mysql: fixed quoting for DBI::Binary and Strings containing non-printable characters

* dbd_pg: 
  * improved Database#ping (return one instead of hundred rows)
  * added Database attribute: pg_client_encoding
  * added driver specific functions in Database: blob_import, blob_export, blob_create, blob_open, blob_unlink and blob_read
  * convert automatically DBI::Binary objects to OID's and insert the content as BLOB
  * method DatabaseHandle#columns now extract default value.

* dbd_db2: provide DatabaseHandle#do and parameter markers.

* sqlsh.rb: added commands \dt (describe table), \s (select * from table) and \pl (page length).

: 0.0.10 (2001-10-22)

* dbd_odbc: added odbc_ignorecase option (submitted by Sean O'Halpin), requires Ruby/ODBC 0.93

* dbi: DBI.get_driver(driver_url) returns DriverHandle object

* dbd_mysql: added createdb, dropdb, reload, shutdown as driver-specific
  functions (callable with method Handle#func) of Driver and Database

* dbd_mysql: added StatementHandle#fetch_scroll

: 0.0.9 (2001-09-07)
 * Fixed bug in sql.rb, method "quote" (gsub! => gsub). (thanks to Stephen Davies)

 * dbd_db2:  return more fields in method StatementHandle#column_info 

 * dbd_odbc: removed patch required for Ruby/ODBC version 0.4

 * moved DBI::ColumnInfo out of file dbi.rb to columninfo.rb

 * DatabaseHandle#columns currently only supported by DBD::Pg and DBD::MySQL.
   Thanks to Eli Green for his implementation.
    
 * StatementHandle#column_info no more returns an array of hashs, instead it
   returns an array of DBI::ColumnInfo objects

 * new class DBI::ColumnInfo

 * new method DatabaseHandle#columns(table)

 * extended DBD and DBI specs (added constants for introspection, Database#columns)

 * fixed bug in utils.rb XMLFormatter.table (thanks to Jim Menard)

: 0.0.8 (2001-07-28)
 * fixed bug in DBI::Row (dup/clone did not work) (Jim Weirich)
 * fixed bug in dbi.rb (load_driver)
 * corrected quoting for Date, Time and Timestamp

: 0.0.7 (2001-07-11)
 * fixed bug in dbi.rb, which was newly introduced in 0.0.6

: 0.0.6 (2001-07-06)
 * added supports for dbi:DBD:database:host instead of dbi:DBD:database=aaa;host=bbb (John Gorman)
 * added case-insensitive driver URLs (e.g. dbi:Pg:... and dbi:pg:... works) (John Gorman)
 * improved examples/sqlsh.rb (added scripting features \i \o)
 * fixed bug in dbi/sql.rb method bind.

: 0.0.5 (2001-06-09)
 * almost complete rewrite of DBI by Michael Neumann.
  
: 0.0.4 (2001-05-05)
 * based on Jim Weirich's suggestion, the drivers have been moved
   into a new namespace: DBI::DBD::[driver]

: 0.0.3 (2001-04-28)
 * changed 'driver not found' error-message to something more generic

: 0.0.2 
 * initial release

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