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I missed this thread, so I'm sorry for my late reply.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote:

We're using Postgres, and we utilize a sessions table in our web app that
requires us to do a 'SELECT FOR UPDATE', which means that a second process
could block if it also calls 'SELECT FOR UPDATE'.  In order to armor against
users clogging up the system, we need to be able to call ...

I'm glad to announce new versions of DBD::Sys:
- the release with heavy plug-in structure reworking (0.100) and
- the release with a test fix (0.101).
I would be happy to read about feedback and successful uses.

I am happy to announce another development release of DBD::ODBC. Many
thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release and especially to
all my friends on the #dbi irc channel and perl monks. My intention is
to add a lob writing method and full support for DBI's ...

I have the requirement to read lobs via DBD::ODBC in chunks but there is
no current way of doing this. I see DBI defines blob_read something like
this:
blob_read => { U =>[4,5,'$field, $offset, $len [, \\$buf [,$bufoffset]]'] }

I'm trying to build DBD::Informix on AIX but when I'm executing a make
test, it fails at every test with an unresolved symbol error (ifx_checkAPI).
Any help on that would be greatly apreciated, I'm banging my head on the
wall with this problem...

Hi Tim,
yesterday after updating the pkgsrc packages around DBI while having picknick at
the event Cologne lights up
(http://www.koelner-lichter.de/pages/en.html), I had an idea

Hi Tim,
regarding to our short discussion in #dbi about the future of SQL::Statement
and the implications to DBI::SQL::Nano here the open discussion for all.
I've want to improve SQL::Statement by design, that means I want to design

Dear Jeff,
I hope you're not completely off for Perl5 development. Maybe you are still
subscribed on dbi-dev@perl.org and see our progress of the last months
and weeks thanks to your great groundwork.

I'm proud to announce SQL::Statement 1.28. It's the first release for
me where other DBI developers (Matin Evans, H. Merijn Brand) actively
contributed patches and do their own commits.
Thanks for that!

as DBI-1.612 becomes stable and ready to ship now, I'm starting to
upload (short cycled) development releases of DBD::Sys.
If anyone is willing to test, submit ideas, bug reports etc., I would
be glad to do what ever I can to get the next release (will be 0.100,

This is just to warn you about a problem I recently hit with
DBD::Oracle. I originally reported it at
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=55028 as "DBD
INVALID_HANDLE" and since following the advice to use empty_clob I get a

I'm glad to let everyone out in Perl Land know that DBD::mysql 4.015 is
released. Per the changelog:
* BUG #56664 fixed t/40blobs.t skip_all logic (W. Phillip Moore)
* BUG #57253 Fixed iteration past end of string (crash). (Chris Butler)

I will be out of the office starting  07/06/2010 and will not return until
07/12/2010.
I am working mornings until 12:30pm ET from 7/6 through 7/9, and out in the
afternoon.    In my absence, please contact the following people: ISP

Hi Merijn,
I thought a bit about your data dictionary goals together with my
goal to can join between CSV-tables and DBD-tables (etc.).
I kept in mind, that backward compatibility is a major requirement.