[ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB-1.3.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package MDB-1.3.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.


Release notes
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MDB requires PHP 4.2 from now on.
MDB:
- fixed PHP5 compatibility issue in MDB::isError()
all drivers:
- added quoteIdentifier() method
- added sequence_col_name option to make the column name inside sequence
emulation tables configurable
- renamed toString() to __toString() in order to take advantage of new PHP5
goodness and made it public
- unified the native error raising methods (tested on oracle, pgsql, mysql a
nd ibase)
- fixed bug #1159 which would break index handling in getTableFieldDefinitio
n()
if not in portability mode
MDB_ibase:
- fixed several bugs in the buffering code
- fixed NULL management
- fixed replace()
MDB_oci8:
- fixed several bugs in the buffering code
- added native currId() implementation
MDB_Manager_oci8:
- added listTables() and listTableFields()
MDB_mysql:
- added quoteIdentifier() method
MDB_fbsql:
- removed broken implementations of currId()
MDB_mssql:
- removed broken implementations of currId()
- added quoteIdentifier() method
MDB_Manager_mysql:
- fixed mysql 4.0.13 issue in createSequence()
- several fixes to ensure the correct case is used when fetching data
without the portability flag setting enabled
MDB_Manager_mssql:
- added listTables() and listTableFields()
- added getTableFieldDefinition() (still alpha quality)
test suite:
- added several test and applied PHP5 compatibility fixes
- fixed a wrong assumption in the fetchmode bug test
- moved set_time_limit() call to the setup script to be easier to customize

Package Info
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PEAR MDB is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction lay
ers.
It provides a common API for all support RDBMS. The main difference to most
other DB abstraction packages is that MDB goes much further to ensure
portability. Among other things MDB features:
* An OO-style query API
* A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers
* Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion
* Portable error codes
* Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
* Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows
* Prepare/execute (bind) emulation
* Sequence emulation
* Replace emulation
* Limited Subselect emulation
* Row limit support
* Transactions support
* Large Object support
* Index/Unique support
* Module Framework to load advanced functionality on demand
* Table information interface
* RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering)
* RDBMS independent xml based schema definition management
* Altering of a DB from a changed xml schema
* Reverse engineering of xml schemas from an existing DB (currently only MyS
QL)
* Full integration into the PEAR Framework
* Wrappers for the PEAR DB and Metabase APIs
* PHPDoc API documentation
Currently supported RDBMS:
MySQL
PostGreSQL
Oracle
Frontbase
Querysim
Interbase/Firebird
MSSQL

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/MDB
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=MDB
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/MDB-1.3.0.tgz

Authors
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Lukas Smith <smith@backendmedia.com> (lead)
Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (contributor)
Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (contributor)
Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> (contributor)
Christian Dickmann <dickmann@php.net> (contributor)
Paul Cooper <pgc@openadvantage.org> (contributor)
Frank M. Kromann <frank@kromann.info> (contributor)
Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (contributor)