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    <title>Older ODBC Release Notes</title>
    <prepared>otp_appnotes</prepared>
    <docno>nil</docno>
    <date>nil</date>
    <rev>nil</rev>
  </header>

  <section>
    <title>odbc 1.0.6</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Error handling has been enhanced and better documented</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4661</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>odbc 1.0.5</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Some error messages originating from the sql-driver where
            corrupted so that odbc only returned the end of the error
            message. This has now been fixed.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4636 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>The erlang odbc process will now die normally if a
            connection can not be established. No connection no
            process it is expected. And as the client has already
            received the error message that would be the reason with
            which the erlang process would be stopped, the supervisor
            report will be superfluous. Naturally you may still get
            supervisor reports if the erlang process is stopped for
            any other reason than the above.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4639 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>odbc 1.0.4</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>API function commit/3 is now exported.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4593 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>If an ODBC API function times out it will cause the
            client to exit with reason timeout. If this exit was
            caught and the client continued using the connection, the
            next request could get the answer meant for the
            previously timed out request, this is no longer the case.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4606 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Improved error messages so that the implementation not
            shall shine through.</p>
          <p>Added possibility to let a connection return rows as
            tuples instead of lists.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4605 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Scrollable cursors are nice but causes some overhead. For
            some connections speed might be more important than
            flexible data access and then you can disable scrollable
            cursor for a connection, limiting the API but gaining
            speed.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4624</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>odbc 1.0</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>API function commit/3 is now exported.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4593 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>If an ODBC API function times out it will cause the
            client to exit with reason timeout. If this exit was
            caught and the client continued using the connection, the
            next request could get the answer meant for the
            previously timed out request, this is no longer the case.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4606 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Some error messages originating from the sql-driver where
            corrupted so that odbc only returned the end of the error
            message. This has now been fixed.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4636 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>The Erlang ODBC application consists of both Erlang and C
            code. The C code is delivered as a precompiled executable
            for windows and solaris. For the purpose of recompilation
            or compiling on some other platform there is a Makefile
            included.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4193 Aux Id: seq7190 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Expensive constructs such as lists:flatten/1, double
            buffering and string compare has been replaced by more
            efficient constructs or when possible totally eliminated.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4362</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>New API that has an Erlang/OTP touch and feel instead of
            being a C-interface with Erlang syntax. The old interface
            is deprecated and will be removed in release R10.</p>
          <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4498</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>API functions that became deprecated in version 0.9.1 has
            been removed.</p>
          <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4499</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Improved error messages so that the implementation not
            shall shine through.</p>
          <p>Added possibility to let a connection return rows as
            tuples instead of lists.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4605 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Scrollable cursors are nice but causes some overhead. For
            some connections speed might be more important than
            flexible data access and then you can disable scrollable
            cursor for a connection, limiting the API but gaining
            speed.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4624</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>The erlang odbc process will now die normally if a
            connection can not be established. No connection no
            process it is expected. And as the client has already
            received the error message that would be the reason with
            which the erlang process would be stopped, the supervisor
            report will be superfluous. Naturally you may still get
            supervisor reports if the erlang process is stopped for
            any other reason than the above.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4639 Aux Id: seq7766 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Error handling has been enhanced and better documented</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4661</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>odbc 0.9.3</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Erlang ODBC application can handle floating point number
            and has been improved with null value handling. The error
            messages has been improved with STATE-information from SQL
            function SQLGetDiagRec.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4192 Aux Id: seq7195 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>sqlCloseCursor have been replaced with sqlCloseHandle </p>
          <p>(*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***) </p>
          <p>Aux Id: seq7283 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>
</chapter>


