v4.4.0

Enhancements (C API)

• OCI_Object: Supporting now non final object types
  • if an OCI_Object instance real type is a sub type of its column object type, OCILIB is dynamically retrieving its real and right type instead of processing it as its base type
  • Added missing synchronized access when iterating the list of existing OCI_TypeInfo in OCI_TypeInfoGet()
• Allocation Binding mode updates
  • Added BindGetAllocationMode()
  • updated OCI_GetBindAllocation() and OCI_SetBindAllocation() documentation to properly specify their usage
• Extended 12cR2 support:
  • Increased identifier size to 128
  • Added OCI_ColumnGetCollationID
  • Added more Oracle Session Mode
• Refactored OCI_List implementation (Internal change)
  • No more access to OCI_List fields from other compilation units (encapsulation purposes)
  • Refactored OCI_List implementation

Fixes (C API)

• Issue #112: OCI_GetString behaves badly with empty LOBs
• Issue #104: XA connection open failed with ORA-12154
  • Fixed broken support for XA connections
  • Added 2 new error codes related to XA connections management (OCI_ERR_XA_ENV_FROM_STRING, OCI_ERR_XA_CONN_FROM_STRING)
• Issue #101: Wrong OCI_STRING_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP constant
• Fix for Oracle bug #9838993 workaround
  • Version 4.2.1 introduced support for an experimental workaround for Oracle bug 9838993 (memory leak when using unicode and re-preparing/executing same statement multiple times)
  • This support was not always working as column names where sometimes not null terminated