--- BDB/Changes 2007/08/13 12:04:41 1.9 +++ BDB/Changes 2009/11/12 02:22:45 1.75 @@ -1,5 +1,138 @@ Revision history for perl module BDB. +TODO: DB_RECNUM/DB_SET_RECNO? + +1.85 Thu Nov 12 03:22:21 CET 2009 + - speed up object creation/type checking considerably + by caching the stashes. + +1.84 Wed Aug 5 13:52:21 CEST 2009 + - require common sense. + - use schmorp.h for pipe, taking advantage of eventfd. + - fix a bug in event pipe creation code on win32. + +1.83 Sun Jan 11 01:52:56 CET 2009 + - fix db_upgrade, add db_verify. + +1.82 Sun Jan 4 11:22:44 CET 2009 + - use our own socketpair emulation (stolen from libev), as perl's + doesn't work on vista, which returns fantasy port numbers + in getpeer/sockname. + +1.81 Tue Oct 21 04:20:25 CEST 2008 + - check that mutable arguments can be downgraded - this + /very indirectly) ensures that output variables won't + have spurious utf-8 flags. + - fix opmode checdk in db_c_get, db_c_pget again. + - allow undef/default arguments for db_compact, for a + crash-free tomorrow! + - fix a memleak in db_key_range. + - started a common pitfdalls section. + - added db_env_log_archive. + - added db->set_pagesize. + - added BDB::IGNORE_LEASE. + - reworked documentation structure. + +1.801 Mon Sep 29 04:58:03 CEST 2008 + - removed ptrace.h and user.h includes thta have been left in + erronously. + - "port" to buggy windows compilers. again. + +1.8 Sat Sep 27 14:01:37 CEST 2008 + - non-callback requests will now - by default - be executed in the + foreground, which is much faster, but doesn't allow parallel + processing of other, event-based, requests. + - functions that modify their arguments now croak when a constant + is passed to them. + - db_c_get/db_c_pget requests did not correctly test the operation flags. + - db_pget now correctly updates the pkey argument. + - keep references to the passed env/db/etc. objects so they + can't get destroyed while requests are still outstanding. + - fixed a few minor stack issues. + +1.71 Tue Jul 29 05:30:24 CEST 2008 + - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 support. + - untested support for db4.3. + - berkelydb needs seriously larger stacksizes (on x86 at least) + then what the default xthread.h provides. + +1.7 Thu Jul 17 14:09:25 CEST 2008 + - use a totally different mechanism to pass callbacks to + requests (see manpage). + - optional arguments before the callback can now be left out. + - use less memory per request, probably be a bit faster, too. + - fix a memory leak (callbacks were never freed). + - add a basic testsuite. + - add (untested) support for cdsgroup_begin and db_exists. + - make BDB::VERSION compatible to UNIVERSAL::VERSION. + +1.6 Tue Jul 8 10:34:58 CEST 2008 + - add new BDB::VERSION function for easy version checks. + - work around broken bsd headers once more. + - support for berkeley db 4.7 added. + - add support for log_set_config and it's constants, + and set_intermediate_dir_mode. + - add db_env_dbrename and db_env_dbremove. + +1.5 Sat May 10 22:22:42 CEST 2008 + - 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). + - support AnyEvent::BDB. + +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.