[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB-1.6.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package DB-1.6.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- ============= API CHANGE: mysql4 was renamed mysqli. Change your DSN info accordingly. (danielc) ============= ENHANCEMENTS: - test suite: The test suite now includes a shell script for jump starting the process. Also, the version of setup.inc stored in CVS was renamed so you don't have to worry about CVS touching or committing your locally modified copy. (danielc) - all: Added DB_PORTABILITY_NULL_TO_EMPTY portability mode. Converts null values to empty strings in data output by * get*() and fetch*(). Helpful because Oracle doesn't know the difference between null and empty. (danielc) - ifx: Several new error code mappings: 'Identifier too long' = DB_ERROR_SYNTAX 'Table already exists' = DB_ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS 'duplicate value' = DB_ERROR_CONSTRAINT 'Could not update a row in the table'    = DB_ERROR_CONSTRAINT 'Missing key in referenced table for referential    constraint' = DB_ERROR_CONSTRAINT 'Character to numeric conversion error'    = DB_ERROR_INVALID_NUMBER 'Syntax disallowed in this database server'    = DB_ERROR_SYNTAX (danielc) -ibase, ifx, mssql, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite, sybase: Map not null constraint errors to DB_ERROR_CONSTRAINT_NOT_NULL. (danielc) -mysql, mysqli: Map not null constraint error (1048) from DB_ERROR_CONSTRAINT to DB_ERROR_CONSTRAINT_NOT_NULL when portability is on. (danielc) ============= BUGS FIXED: - ifx: fetchRow() now adds 1 to the requested $rownum because ifx_fetch_row() starts at 1. (peterwb) - ifx: affectedRows() now returns 0 for SELECT queries, just like the other DBMS's. (danielc) - ibase: Remove trans_number argument from rollback() method. No other driver has it and ibase_rollback() doesn't accept it. (danielc) - sqlite: Set $dsn property when connecting. (danielc) Package Info ------------- DB is a database abstraction layer providing: * an OO-style query API * portability features that make programs written    for one DBMS work with other DBMS's * a DSN (data source name) format for specifying    database servers * prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases    that don't support it natively * a result object for each query response * portable error codes * sequence emulation * sequential and non-sequential row fetching as    well as bulk fetching * formats fetched rows as associative arrays,    ordered arrays or objects * row limit support * transactions support * table information interface * DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. The currently supported extensions are: dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, mysqli, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and sybase. DB is compatible with both PHP 4 and PHP 5. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/DB Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=DB Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB-1.6.0.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (lead) Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> (lead) Daniel Convissor (lead)