--- BDB/Changes 2007/07/08 14:57:59 1.7 +++ BDB/Changes 2008/04/21 20:09:44 1.37 @@ -1,5 +1,67 @@ Revision history for perl module BDB. + - port to solaris perls configured for old posix + (analysed by Jost Krieger). + - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux + allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you + use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads + on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN + and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k). + +1.45 Sun Mar 30 10:01:00 CEST 2008 + - work around win32 perl's broken filehandles + (this cannot work in all cases, so watch out). + +1.44 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008 + - encode filenames as utf-8 (for bdb/win32) + or binary (everywhere else). + - patch $! to support stringification of BDB errno values + (utter hack, this should be pluggable :). + - fix prototypes of (void) functions. + +1.43 Sun Jan 13 11:52:49 CET 2008 + - differentiate between nuked and undef objects, so as to + not throw an exception when destroying closed handles. + +1.42 Tue Dec 25 15:22:50 CET 2007 + - do not automatically call set_thread_count. + +1.41 Sat Dec 22 08:32:41 CET 2007 + - add cursor->set_priority. + - minor optimisations and checks. + - port to microsoft pseudo-C again. + +1.4 Wed Dec 12 02:20:39 CET 2007 + - new globals BDB::VERSION and ..VERSION_STRING. + - add db_upgrade. + - do not die in DESTROY after explicit db_close and similar + operations. + +1.3 Fri Dec 7 14:36:25 CET 2007 + - db_put and c_put leaked memory like hell (reported by Danny). + - de-IO::AIO-ify the documentation. + - port to microsofts pseudo-C from hell. + - added mutex_set_increment, mutex_set_tas_spins + and mutex_set_max, mutex_set_align. + +1.2 Tue Dec 4 11:12:47 CET 2007 + - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno + stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make + it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking + behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers. + - added missing DB::RDONLY (reported by Danny). + +1.1 Sun Sep 16 20:15:55 CEST 2007 + - flag and check TXN_DEADLOCK flag for easier transaction + programming (see db_txn_finish). + - new custom db_txn_finish request. + - improved docs. + +1.0 Mon Aug 13 14:02:42 CEST 2007 + - some updates for db 4.6. + - vastly improved documentation, i.e. there is some now. + - this module has been tested a lot in the Crossfire TRT server. + 0.5 Sun Jul 8 16:57:03 CEST 2007 - port to db 4.4.20 (probably any 4.4 version). - added bdb error constants.