1.7.35, 2005.05.05 The "Cinco de Mayo" release (r601)
o Added a "how to use Unicode with MySQL++" chapter to the user
manual. (Too bad "Cinco de Mayo" doesn't have any accented
characters. That would be just _too_ precious.)
o VC++ examples now use the Unicode Win32 APIs, so they can display
Unicode data from MySQL++.
o Added an optional conversion function to examples/util.cpp to
handle the conversion from UTF-8 to UCS-2 on Win32.
o Moved "brief history of MySQL++" from intro section of refman to
intro section of userman.
o Lots of small bits of documentation polishing.
o Made some minor constness fixes. Thanks to "Erwin" (erwin at
leastwanted dot nl) for this patch.
o Made some warning fixes for GCC 4.0. Not all warnings are fixed,
because some of the needed changes would break the ABI. Thanks
to Chris Frey for this patch.
o Added lib/Doxyfile to distribution.
1.7.34, 2005.04.30 (r573)
o Added a multiple-insert method for Query, which lets you insert
a range of records from an STL container (or the whole thing,
if you like) in a single SQL query. This is faster, and it
reduces coding errors due to less repetition. Thanks to Mark
Meredino for the patch.
o Reference and user manual now get rebuilt automatically when
required. (E.g. on 'make dist', or explicitly now through 'make
docs'.)
o Made it easier to change the maximum number of SSQLS data members
in generated custom-macros.h file. It used to be hard-coded in
several places in lib/custom.pl; now it's a variable at the top of
the file.
o Changed default SSQLS data member limit to 25, which is what it
has been documented as for a long time now. It was actually 26
within custom.pl.
o Fixed a regression in previous version.
o Trimmed some fat from the distribution packages.
o Some more small doucmentation improvements.
1.7.33, 2005.04.29 (r555)
o Worked around an overloaded operator lookup bug in VC++ 7.1
that caused SSQLS insert, replace and update queries to get
mangled. (Symptom was that custom2 and custom3 examples didn't
work right.) Thanks to Mark Meredino for digging up the
following, which explains the problem and gives the solution:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.stl/browse_thread/thread/9a68d84644e64f15
o Some VC++ warning fixes.
o Major documentation improvements:
o Using DocBook for user manual and Doxygen for reference
manual. The former now references the latter where
useful.
o Split out HACKERS and CREDITS files from main README,
and improved remaining bits of README.
o Moved the text from the old v1.7.9 LaTeX-based
documentation over into the new systems, and reworked
it to more closely resemble English.
o Added a lot of new material to documentation, and
simplified a lot of what already existed.
o Documentation is now being built in HTML and PDF forms.
o ebuild file updated to take advantage of recent configure script
features.
1.7.32, 2005.03.10 (r479)
o Example building may now be skipped with --disable-examples
configure script flag.
o Changed stock items added in resetdb. One is now UTF-8 encoded,
to show that basic use of Unicode with MySQL++ is easy, yet not
foolproof. (See formatting of table on systems where cout isn't
UTF-8 aware!) Other stock items now follow a theme, for your
amusement. :)
o custom3 example now changes UTF-8 item's name to the 7-bit ASCII
equivalent. Previously, this example would fix a spelling error
in the table.
o resetdb example now says 'why' when it is unable to create the
sample database.
o Small formatting change to print_stock_table(), used by several
examples.
o Was issuing a VC++-specific warning-disable pragma when built by
any Windows compiler. Fixed.
1.7.31, 2005.03.05 The "Inevitable Point-one Followup" release (r462)
o Check for threads support must now be explicitly requested via
configure script's new --enable-thread-check flag.
o Fix for contacting MySQL server on a nonstandard port number.
Thanks to Chris Frey for this patch.
o Example programs using standard command line format now accept a
fourth optional parameter, a port number for the server. Thanks
for Chris Frey for this patch.
o One more g++ 3.4 pedantic warning fix by Chris Frey.
o Exception handling in resetdb is no longer nested, because you'd
get a segfault on some systems when an exception was thrown from
one of the inner try blocks.
o Improvements to Connection class's handling of locking mechanism.
Concept based on patches by Rongjun Mu.
o Implemented the declared-but-never-defined Query::lock(). Thanks
to Rongjun Mu for this patch.
o Cleaned up some unclear if/else blocks in connection.cpp by
adding explicit braces, correct indenting and putting normal
code path in the if side instead of the else.
1.7.30, 2005.02.28 The "Power of Round Numbers" release (r443)
o bootstrap script now accepts a 'pedantic' argument, which sets a
bunch of CFLAGS that make g++ very picky about the code it
accepts without warnings.
o Fixed a bunch of things that generated warnings with g++ in
pedantic mode. Only two warnings remain, having to do with
floating point comparisons. (See Wishlist for plans on how to
deal with these.) Thanks to Chris Frey for this patch.
o Split long tests out of configure.in into M4 files in new config
subdir. This makes configure.in easier to read.
o Added preliminary thread support. Currently, this just means that
we detect the required compiler and linker thread flags, and link
against the proper thread-safe libraries. THERE MAY BE
UN-THREAD-SAFE CODE IN MYSQL++ STILL!
o Standard C++ exceptions are the default now. Old pre-Standard
exception stuff removed.
o Row::lookup_by_name() will throw the new BadFieldName exception if
you pass a bad field name. Thanks for this patch to Chris Frey.
o Row::operator[] will throw a Standard C++ out of bounds exception
by way of std::vector::at() if you pass it a bad index. Thanks
for this patch to Chris Frey.
o Setting Connection::is_connected flag to false on close().
Previously, is_connected() would continue to return true after
close() was called.
o All number-to-string conversion ctors in SQLString class now use
ostringstream to do the conversion. Previously, we used
snprintf(), which isn't available on all systems. Also, we used a
C99 format specifier for the "long long" conversion, which is also
not available on all systems. This new ostringstream code should
be platform-independent, finally.
1.7.28, 2005.02.04 (r403)
o --with-mysql* flags to configure script now try the given
directory explicitly, and only if that fails do they try
variations, like tacking '/lib' and such onto it to try and find
the MySQL includes and libraries. Thanks to Matthew Walton for
the patch.
o Finally removed sql_quote.h's dependence on custom.h, by moving
the one definition it needed from custom.h to deps.h. This will
help portability to compilers that can't handle the SSQLS macros,
by making that part of the library truly optional.
1.7.27, 2005.01.12 (r395)
o configure check for libmysqlclient now halts configuration if the
library isn't found. Previously, it would just be flagged as
missing, and MySQL++ would fail to build.
o Added sql_string.cpp to VC++ and BCBuilder project files.
o Removed Totte Karlsson's 'populate' example, which never made it
into the distribution anyway.
o Removed last vestiges of 'dummy.cpp'.
o Renamed *.cc to *.cpp in BCBuilder project files.
o Worked around a BCBuilder C++ syntax processing bug in row.h.
1.7.26, 2004.12.17 (r382)
o Moved all of the SQLString definitions out of the header and into
a new .cpp file, reformatted it all, and made the integer
conversion functions use snprintf() or _snprintf() instead of
sprintf(). Also, widened some of the buffers for 64-bit systems.
o Using quoted #include form for internal library headers, to avoid
some problems with file name clashes. (The headers should still
be installed in their own separate directory for best results,
however.) Thanks to Chris Frey and Evan Wies for the patch and
the discussion that lead to it.
o Removed unnecessary semicolons on namespace block closures.
Thanks to Evan Wies for this patch.
o Fixed namespace handling in the legacy headers mysql++.hh and
sqlplus.hh. Thanks to Chris Frey for this patch.
o #including iostream instead of ostream in lib/null.h for
broader C++ compatibility. (This may allow MySQL++ to work on GCC
2.95.2 again, but this is unconfirmed.)
o Detecting proper mysql_shutdown() argument handling automatically
in platform.h for the Windows compiler case instead of making the
user edit the file. Thanks to Evan Wies for this patch.
o Fixed examples/Makefile.simple to use new *.cpp file naming.
o Fix to Gentoo ebuild file's exception configure switch handling.
Thanks to Chris Frey for this patch.
o Rebuilding lib/custom*.h intelligently now, to avoid unnecessary
recompiles after running bootstrap script.
1.7.25, 2004.12.09 (r360)
o Yet more fixes to the --with-mysql-lib and --with-mysql-include
flags.
o Added DLLEXPORT stuff to platform.h, hopefully so that someone
can figure out how to make VC++ make a DLL version of MySQL++.
o Renamed *.cc to *.cpp.
o Made 'set -> myset' change in VC++ project files.
o Some style changes (mostly whitespace) in header files.
1.7.24, 2004.12.08 (r343)
o Fixed the --with-mysql-lib and --with-mysql-include flags'
behavior, and extended their search ability to handle one other
common case. (Fixed by Steve Roberts)
o Fixes to put freestanding functions in namespace mysqlpp. (They
weren't in the namespace, while all the class member functions
were.) This required bumping the ABI version number to 4.
o Renamed set module to myset, to avoid conflicts with Standard C++
Library's set.h when MySQL++ headers were installed into one of
the standard system include directories.
o Renamed all the idempotency guards to make them consistent in
style and unique to MySQL++.
o Reformatted all of lib/*.cc.
1.7.23, 2004.11.20 (r333)
o Query::reset() now empties the stored query string. If you
subsequently stored a longer query in the object, you'd overwrite
the previous query, but otherwise the longer part of the previous
one would stick out past the new query.
o We now look to the NO_LONG_LONGS macro only to decide whether to
fake 64-bit integer support using 32-bit integers.
o 64-bit integer support under Visual C++ may be working now, using
that platform's __int64_t type. This has not been tested.
o Removed 64-bit integer support for Codewarrior on Mac OS 9 and
earlier. OS X uses GCC, so it requires no special support.
o Added MinGW detection in platform.h.
o If you pass a flag (-X) to the examples that take the standard
parameters (resetdb, simple1, etc.), it prints a usage message.
o Better error handling in resetdb example, where errors are the
most critical. (If that one runs without errors, the others
probably will, too, and you have to run that one first.)
o resetdb now reports success, rather than succeeding silently.
o Removed the code in sample1 example that duplicated util module's
print_stock_table(), and called that function instead.
o Moved the preview() calls in the example programs to before the
query execution calls, because execution modifies the query.
o All examples that take the standard command line parameters now
exit when connect_to_db() fails in one of the ways that don't
throw an exception, rather than bulling onward until the next
MySQL database call fails because the connection isn't up.
o dbinfo example now takes the standard command line parameters.
o Much better output formatting in dbinfo example.
o Calling reset() where appropriate in the various example programs.
Before, the programs may have worked, but not for the right
reason. This lead some people to believe that calling reset()
was not necessary.
o Fixed an incorrect use of row["string"] in complic1 example.
o Lots of code style improvements to the examples.
o Some VC++ type warnings squished. Some remain.
1.7.22, 2004.11.17 (r302)
o Applied patches by Zahroof Mohammed to allow it to build under GCC
3.4.2. Tested on MinGW and Fedora Core 3 systems.
o Removed all the forward declarations in defs.h, and added
forward declarations where necessary in individual header files.
#including defs.h in fewer locations as a result.
o Legacy headers sqlplus.hh and mysql++.hh now declare they are
using namespace mysqlpp, to allow old code to compile against the
new library without changes.
o Removed query_reset parameter from several class Query member
functions. In the implementation, these parameters were always
overridden! No sense pretending that we pay attention to these
parameters. This changes the ABI version to 3.
o #including custom.h in sql_query.h again...it's necessary on GCC
3.4.
o bootstrap script runs lib/config.pl after configure. This is
just a nicety for those running in 'maintainer mode'.
1.7.21, 2004.11.05 (r273)
o Generating a main mysql++ RPM containing just the library files
and basic documentation, and the -devel package containing
everything else.
o Devel package contains examples now, along with a new Makefile
that uses the system include and library files, rather than the
automake-based Makefile.am we currently have which uses the files
in the mysql++ source directory.
o Renamed sqlplusint subdirectory in the package to lib.
o Removed the obsolete lib/README file.
o lib/sql_query.h no longer #includes custom.h, simplifying
build-time dependencies and shortening compile times.
1.7.20, 2004.11.03 (r258)
o Collapsed all numbered *.hh headers into a single *.h file. For
example, the contents of row1.hh, row2.hh and row3.hh are now in
row.h.
o While doing the previous change, broke several circular
dependencies. (The numbered file scheme was probably partly done
to avoid this problem.) The practical upshot of most of these
changes is that some functions are no longer inline.
o Removed define_short.hh and everything associated with it. The
library now uses the short names exclusively (e.g. Row instead of
MysqlRow).
o Put all definitions into namespace mysqlpp. For most programs,
simply adding a 'using namespace mysqlpp' near the top of the
program will suffice to convert to this version.
o Once again, the main include file was renamed, this time to
mysql++.h. Hopefully this is the last renaming!
o mysql++.hh still exists. It emits a compiler warning that the
file is obsolete, then it #includes mysql++.h for you.
o sqlplus.hh is back, being a copy of the new mysql++.hh. Both of
these files may go away at any time. They exist simply to help
people transition to the new file naming scheme.
o Renamed mysql++-windows.hh to platform.h, and added code to it to
handle #inclusion of config.h on autotools-based systems
intelligently. This fixes the config.h error when building under
Visual C++.
o There is now only one place where conditional inclusion of
winsock.h happens: platform.h.
o Beautified the example programs.
1.7.19, 2004.10.25 (r186)
o Fixed an infinite loop in the query mechanism resulting from the
strstream change in the previous version. There is an overloaded
set of str() member functions that weren't a problem when query
objects were based on strstream.
o Query mechanism had a bunch of const-incorrectness: there were
several function parameters and functions that were const for
the convenience of other parts of the code, but within these
functions the constness was const_cast away! This was evil
and wrong; now there are fewer const promises, and only one is
still quietly broken within the code. (It's in the SQLQuery
copy ctor implementation; it should be harmless.)
o Removed operator=() in Query and SQLQuery classes. It cannot take
a const argument for the same reason we have to cast away const
in the SQLQuery copy ctor. It's tolerable to do this in the copy
ctor, but intolerable in an operator. Since the copy ctor is good
enough for all code within the library and within my own code, I'm
removing the operator.
o Above changes required bumping the ABI to version 2.
o Visual C++ projects now look for MySQL build files in c:\mysql,
since that's the default install location. (Previously, it was
c:\program files\mysql.)
1.7.18, 2004.10.01 (r177)
o Changed all the strstream (and friends) stuff to stringstream type
classes. Let there be much rejoicing.
o Query object now lets you use store() even when the SQL query
cannot return a result, such as a DROP TABLE command. This is
useful for sending arbitrary SQL to the server. Thanks to
Jose Mortensen for the patch.
o Quote fix in configure.in, thanks to David Sward.
o Renamed undef_short file to undef_short.hh.
o Gentoo ebuild file is actually being shipped with the tarball,
instead of just sitting in my private CVS tree since 1.7.14 was
current. Ooops....
1.7.17, 2004.09.16 (r170)
o Reverted one of the VC++ warning fix changes from 1.7.16 that
caused crashes on Linux.
o Added a configure test that conditionally adds the extra 'level'
parameter to mysql_shutdown() that was added in MySQL 4.1.3 and
5.0.1.
1.7.16, 2004.09.13 (r160)
o Building VC++ version with DLL version of C runtime libraries, and
at warning level 3 with no warnings emitted.
o VC++ build no longer attempts to fake "long long" support. See
the Wishlist for further thoughts on this.
1.7.15, 2004.09.02 (r144)
o Renamed Configure file to common.am, to avoid file name conflict
with configure script on case-sensitive file systems.
o Added ebuild file and ebuild target to top-level Makefile for
Gentoo systems. Thanks to Chris Frey for this.
o Small efficiency improvements to BadQuery exception handling.
Initial idea by Chris Frey, improvements by Warren Young.
1.7.14, 2004.08.26 (r130)
o Builds with Visual C++ 7.1.
o Fixed a bug in custom macro generation that caused problems with
GCC 3.4. (X_cus_value_list ctor definition was broken.)
1.7.13, 2004.08.23 (r92)
o Removed USL CC support. (System V stock system compiler.) Use
GCC on these platforms instead.
o Added examples/README, explaining how to use the examples, and
what they all do.
o Most of the example programs now accept command line arguments for
host name, user name and password, like resetdb does.
o Renamed sinisa_ex example to dbinfo.
o Several Standard C++ syntax fixes to quash errors emitted by
GCC 3.4 and Borland C++ Builder 6. Thanks to Steffen Schumacher
and Totte Karlsson for their testing and help with these.
o Added proper #includes for BCBuilder, plus project files for same.
Thanks to Totte Karlsson for these.
1.7.12, 2004.08.19 (r63)
o Many Standard C++ fixes, most from the GCC 3.4 patch by
Rune Kleveland.
o Added Wishlist file to distribution.
o Fixed a problem in the bootstrap script that caused complaints
from the autotools on some systems.
o RPM building is working properly now.
o Fixed the idempotency guard in datetime1.hh.
1.7.11, 2004.08.17 (r50)
o Renamed mysql++, defs and define_short files, adding .hh to the
end of each. (They're header files!) This shouldn't impact
library users, since these are hopefully used internal to the
library only.
o Removed sqlplus.hh file. Use mysql++.hh instead.
o Added mysql++.spec, extracted from contributed 1.7.9 source RPM,
and updated it significantly. Also, added an 'rpm' target to
Makefile.am to automate the process of building RPMs.
o Added bootstrap and LGPL files to distribution tarball.
o Added pre-1.7.10 history to this file.
o Removed .version file. Apparently it's something required by old
versions of libtool.
1.7.10, 2004.08.16 (r27)
o Maintenance taken over by Warren Young (mysqlpp at etr dash usa
dot com.) See http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/3326 for details.
o Applied many of the GCC 3.x patches submitted for 1.7.9 over
the years. This allows it to build on everything from 3.0 to
3.3.3, at least. Because so many patches are rolled up in one
big jump, it's difficult to describe all the changes and where
they came from. Mostly they're Standard C++ fixes, as GCC
has become more strict in the source code that it will accept.
o MysqlRow used to overload operator[] for string types as well as
integers so you could look up a field by its name, rather than by
its index. GCC 3.3 says this is illegal C++ due to ambiguities in
resolving which overload should be used in various situations.
operator[] is now overloaded only for one integer type, and a
new member function lookup_by_name() was added to maintain the old
by-field-name functionality.
o Fixed another operator overloading problem in SSQLS macro
generation with GCC 3.3.
o The _table member of SSQLS-defined structures is now const char*,
so you can assign to it from a const char* string.
o Got autoconf/automake build system working with current versions
of those tools again. Removed the generated autotools files from
CVS.
o Renamed library file from libsqlplus to libmysqlpp.
1.7.9 (May 1 2001) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* Fixed a serious bug in Connection constructor when reading MySQL
* options
* Improved copy constructor and some other methods in Result /
* ResUse
* Many other minor improvements
* Produced a complete manual with chapter 5 included
* Updated documentation, including a Postscript format
1.7.8 (November 14 2000) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* Introduced a new, standard way of dealing with C++ exceptions.
* MySQL++ now supports two different methods of tracing exceptions.
* One is by the fixed type (the old one) and one is standard C++
* type by the usage of what() method. A choice of methods has to be
* done in building a library. If configure script is run with
* -enable-exception option , then new method will be used. If no
* option is provided, or -disable-exception is used, old MySQL++
* exceptions will be enforced. This innovation is a contribution of
* Mr. Ben Johnson <ben@blarg.net>
* MySQL++ now automatically reads at connection all standard MySQL
* configuration files
* Fixed a bug in sql_query::parse to enable it to parse more then 99
* char's
* Added an optional client flag in connect, which will enable usage
* of this option, e.g. for getting matched and not just affected
* rows. This change does not require any changes in existing
* programs
* Fixed some smaller bugs
* Added better handling of NULL's. Programmers will get a NULL
* string in result set and should use is_null() method in ColData to
* check if value is NULL
* Further improved configuration
* Updated documentation, including a Postscript format
1.7.6 (September 22 2000) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* This release contains some C++ coherency improvements and scripts
* enhacements
* result_id() is made available to programmers to fetch
* LAST_INSERT_ID() value
* Connection constroctur ambiguity resolved, thanks to marc@mit.edu
* Improved cnnfigure for better finding out MySQL libraries and
* includes
* Updated documentation, including a Postscript format
1.7.5 (July 30 2000) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* This release has mainl bug fixes and code improvements
* A bug in FieldNames::init has been fixed, enabling a bug free
* usage of this class with in what ever a mixture of cases that is
* required
* Changed behaviour of ResUse, Result and Row classes, so that they
* could be re-used as much as necessary, without any memory leaks,
* nor with any re-initializations necessary
* Fixed all potential leaks that could have been caused by usage of
* delete instead of delete[] after memory has been allocated with
* new[]
* Deleted all unused classes and macros. This led to a reduction of
* library size to one half of the original size. This has
* furthermore brought improvements in compilation speed
* Moved all string manipulation from system libraries to
* libmysqlclient, thus enabling uniformity of code and usage of 64
* bit integers on all platforms, including Windows, without
* reverting to conditional compilation. This changes now requires
* usage of mysql 3.23 client libraries, as mandatory
* Changed examples to reflect above changes
* Configuration scripts have been largely changed and further
* changes shall appear in consecutive sub-releases. This changes
* have been done and shall be done by our MySQL developer Thimble
* Smith <tim@mysql.com>
* Changed README, TODO and text version of manual. Other versions of
* manual have not been updated
* Fixed .version ``bug''. This is only partially fixed and version
* remains 1.7.0 due to some problems in current versions of libtool.
* This shall be finally fixed in a near future
* Several smaller fixes and improvements
* Added build.sh script to point to the correct procedure of
* building of this library. Edit it to add configure options of your
* choice
1.7 (May17 2000) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* This is mainly a release dealing with bug fixes, consistency
* improvements and easier configure on some platforms
* A bug in fetch_row() method of ResUse class has been fixed. Beside
* changes that existed in a distributed patch, some additional error
* checking has been introduced
* A bug in escape manipulator has been fixed that could cause an
* error if all characters had to be escaped
* An inconsistency in column indexing has been fixed. Before this
* version, column names in row indexing with strings, i.e.
* row[<string>] , has been case sensitive, which was inconsistent
* with MySQL server handling of column names
* An inconsistency in conversion from strings to integers or floats
* has been fixed. In prior version a space found in data would cause
* a BadConversion exception. This has been fixed, but 100%
* consistency with MySQL server has not been targeted, so that other
* non-numeric characters in data will still cause BadConversion
* exception or error. As this API is used in applications, users
* should provide feedback if full compatibility with MySQL server is
* desired, in which case BadConversion exception or error would be
* abolished in some of future versions
* A new method in ColData class has been introduced. is_null()
* method returns a boolean to denote if a column in a row is NULL.
* Finally, as of this release, testing for NULL values is possible.
* Those are columns with empty strings for which is_null() returns
* true.
* Some SPARC Solaris installations had C++ exception problems with
* g++ 2.95.2 This was a bug that was fixed in GNU gcc, as from
* release 2.95 19990728. This version was thoroughly tested and is
* fully functional on SPARC Solaris 2.6 with the above version of
* gcc.
* A 'virtual destructor ' warning for Result class has been fixed
* Several new functions for STL strings have been added. Those
* functions (see string_util.hh) add some of the functionality
* missing in existing STL libraries
* Conversion for 64 bit integers on FreeBSD systems has been added.
* On those systems _FIX_FOR_BSD_ should be defined in CXXFLAGS prior
* to configuring. Complete conversion to the usage of functions for
* integer conversion found in mysqlclient library is planned for one
* of the next releases
* A completely new, fully dynamic, dramatic and fully mutable result
* set has been designed and will be implemented in some of 2.x
* releases
* Several smaller fixes and improvements, including defaulting
* exceptions to true, instead of false, as of this version
* An up-to-date and complete Postscript version of documentation is
* included in this distribution
* Large chunks of this manual are changed, as well as README and
* TODO files.
1.6 (Feb 3 2000) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* This is a major release as it includes new features and major
* rewrites
* Automatic quoting and escaping with streams. It works
* automatically , depending on the column type. It will work with <<
* on all ostream derived types. it is paricularly handy with query
* objects and strstreams. Automatic quoting and escaping on cout,
* cerr and clog stream objects is intentionally left out, as quoting
* / escaping on those stream objects is not necessary. This feature
* can be turned of by setting global boolean dont_quote_auto to
* true.
* Made some major changes in code, so that now execute method should
* be used only with SSQL and template queries, while for all other
* query execution of UPDATE's, INSERT's, DELETE's, new method exec()
* should be used. It is also faster.
* New method get_string is inroduced for easier handling / casting
* ColData into C++ strings.
* Major rewrite of entire code, which led to it's reduction and
* speed improvement. This also led to removal of several source
* files.
* Handling of binary data is introduced. No application program
* changes are required. One of new example programs demonstrates
* handling of binary data
* Three new example programs have been written and thoroughly
* tested. Their intention is to solve some problems addressed by
* MySQL users.
* Thorough changes is Makefile system has been made
* Better configuration scripts are written, thanks to D.Hawkins
* <dhawkins@cdrgts.com>
* Added several bug fixes
* Changed Manual and Changelog
1.5 (Dec 1 1999) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* Fixed bug in template queries, introduced in 1.4 (!)
* Fixed connect bug
* Fixed several bug in type_info classes
* Added additional robustness in classes
* Added additional methods for SQL type info
* Changed Changelog and README
1.4 (Nov 25 1999) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* Fixed bug in store and storein methods
* Fixed one serious memory leak
* Fixed a very serious bug generated by gcc 2.95.xx !!
* Added robustness in classes, so that e.g. same query and row
* objects can be re-used
* Changed sinisa_ex example to reflect and demonstrate this
* stability
* Changed Changelog and README
* Few other bug fixes and small improvements and speed-ups
1.3 (Nov 10 1999) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* Fixed several erronous definitions
* Further changed source to be 2.95.2 compatible
* Expunged unused statements, especially dubious ones, like use of
* pointer_tracker
* Corrected bug in example file fieldinf1
* Finally fixed mysql_init in Connection constructor, which provided
* much greater stability !
* Added read and get options, so that clients, like mysqlgui can use
* it
* Changed Changelog and README
* Many other bug fixes.
1.2 (Oct 15 1999) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* First offical release. Version 1.0 and 1.1 were releases by Sinisa
* before I (Kevin Atkinson) made him the offical maintainer,
* Many manual fixes.
* Changed README and Changelog
* Changed source to be compilable by gcc 2.95.xx, tribute to Kevin
* Atkinson <kevinatk@home.com>
* Added methods in Connection class which are necessary for
* fullfilling administrative functions with MySQL
* Added many bug fixes in code pertaining to missing class
* initializers , as notified by Michael Rendell <michael@cs.mun.ca>
* Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com> is now the offical
* maintainer.
1.1 (Aug 2 1999) Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
* Added several bug fixes
* Fixed memory leak problems and variables overlapping problems.
* Added automake and autoconf support by loic@ceic.com
* Added Makefile for manual
* Added support for cygwin
* Added example sinisa_ex (let modesty prevail) which used to crash
* a lot when memory allocation, memory leak and overlap problems
* were present. Smooth running of this example proves that all those
* bugs are fixed
* Corrected bugs in sql_query.cc regarding delete versus delete[]
* and string length in manip.cc
* Changed manual
* Changed README
* Many other smaller things
1.0 (June 9 1999) Michael Widenius <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>
* Added patches from Orion Poplawski <orion@bvt.com> to support the
* UnixWare 7.0 compiler
.64.1.1a (Sep 27 1998)
* Fixed several bugs that caused my library to fail to compile with
* egcs 1.1. Hopefully it will still compile with egcs 1.0 however I
* have not been able to test it with egcs 1.0.
* Removed some problem causing debug output in sql++pretty.
.64.1a (Aug 1 1998)
* Added an (almost) full guide to using Template Queries.
* Fixed it so the SQLQuery will throw an exception when all the
* template parameters are not provided.
* Proofread and speedchecked the manual (it really needed it).
* Other minor document fixes.
.64.0.1a (July 31 1998)
* Reworked the Class Reference section a bit.
* Minor document fixes
* Added more examples for SSQLS.
* Changed the syntax of equal_list for SSQLS from equal_list (cchar
* *, Manip, cchar *) to (cchar *, cchar *, Manip).
* Added set methods to SSQLS. These new methods do the same thing as
* there corresponding constructors.
* Added methods for creating a mysql_type_info from a C++ type_info.
.64.a (July 24 1998)
* Changed the names of all the classes so they no longer have to
* have Mysql in the begging of it. However if this creates a problem
* you can define a macro to only use the old names instead.
* The Specialized SQL Structures (formally known as Custom Mysql
* Structures) changed from mysql_ to sql_.
* Added the option of using exceptions thoughout the API.
* ColData (formally known as MysqlStrings) will now throw an
* exception if there is a problem in the conversion.
* Added a null adapter.
* Added Mutable Result Sets
* Added a very basic runtime type identification for SQL types
* Changed the document format from POD to LYX .
* Am now using a modified version of Perceps to extract the class
* information directly from the code to make my life easier.
* Added an option of defining a macro to avoid using the automatic
* conversion with binary operators.
* Other small fixed I probully forgot to mentune.
.63.1.a
* Added Custom Mysql Structures.
* Fixed the Copy constructor of class Mysql
* Started adding code so that class Mysql lets it children now when
* it is leaving
* Attempted to compile it into a library but still need help. As
* default it will compile as a regular program.
* Other small fixes.
.62.a (May 3 1998)
* Added Template Queries
* Created s separate SQLQuery object that is independent of an SQL
* connection.
* You no longer have to import the data for the test program as the
* program creates the database and tables it needs.
* Many small bug fixes.
.61.1.a (April 28 1998)
* Cleaned up the example code in test.cc and included it in the
* manual.
* Added an interface layout plan to the manual.
* Added a reverse iterator.
* Fixed a bug with row.hh (It wasn't being included because of a
* typo).
.61.0.a
* Major interface changes. I warned you that the interface may
* change while it is in pre-alpha state and I wasn't kidding.
* Created a new and Separate Query Object. You can no longer execute
* queries from the Mysql object instead you have to create a query
* object with Mysql::query() and use it to execute queries.
* Added the comparison operators to MysqlDate, MysqlTime and
* MysqlDateTime. Fixed a few bugs in the MysqlDate... that effected
* the stream output and the conversion of them to strings.
* Reflected the MysqlDate... changes in the manual.
* Added a new MysqlSet object and a bunch of functions for working
* with mysql set strings.
.60.3a (April 24 1998)
* Changed strtoq and strtouq to strtoll and strtull for metter
* compatibility Minor Manual fix.
* Changed makefile to make it more compatible with Solaris (Thanks
* Chris H)
* Fixed bug in comparison functions so that they would compare in he
* right direction.
* Added some items to the to do list be sure to have a look.