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1 + FBINTF Change Log  version          (1.1-4 Build 11291)  Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:04:19 +0000
2 +
3 + 1. Fix a problem with the SQL parameter parser that failed to recognise parameters
4 +   where the second character of the parameter name is a numeric.
5 +
6 + 2. New method for IAttachment: procedure getFBVersion(version: TStrings);
7 +   This returns the isc_version connection information as one or more lines.
8 +   This is the same information as returned by isql with the -z option.
9 +
10 +
11 + FBINTF Change Log  version                  (1.1-3) Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:28:10 +0000
12 +
13 + 1. DARWIN only syntax error: fix missing semi-colon in TFBClientAPI.LoadIBLibrary
14 +
15 + 2. Restrict IsMultiThread check to Unix only for compatibility with
16 +   https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30535
17 +
18 + 3. New SQL Tokeniser added to IBUtils. This is used to pre-process SQL with
19 +   named parameters and is intended to avoid problems with (e.g.) Execute Block
20 +   and processing internal parameters as statement parameters.
21 +
22 + 4. New interface IFirebirdLibrary provides access to the underlying firebird DLL
23 +   or shared object. Available via a new member (GetFBLibrary) of IFirebirdAPI.
24 +
25 + 5. New function added to IB.pas
26 +
27 +   function LoadFBLibrary(aLibPathName: string): IFirebirdLibrary
28 +
29 +   This allows a Firebird Library to be loaded from an explicit path. use the
30 +   IFirebirdLibrary.GetFirebirdAPI member function to get the Firebird API using
31 +   the library. It is possible to load Firebird libraries from different locations
32 +   simultaneously, each with a distinct IFirebirdAPI.
33 +
34 + FBINTF Change Log  version               (1.1-2) Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:32 +0100
35 +
36 + 1. Firebird.pas: {$OBJECTCHECKS OFF} added to file to avoid runtime error when
37 +   program compiled with -CR command line switch.
38 +
39 + 2. IServiceManager additions (informational):
40 +    function getProtocol: TProtocol;
41 +    function getPortNo: AnsiString;
42 +
43 + 3. IServiceManager improved error handling. Interfaces changed:
44 +    function Start(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true): boolean;
45 +    function Query(SQPB: ISQPB; Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
46 +    function Query(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
47 +
48 + 4. IAttachment addition (informational)
49 +    function GetSecurityDatabase: AnsiString;
50 +
51 + 5. IStatement: performance counters now updated after each Fetch. GetPerfStatistics
52 +   thus now returns accumulated stats for a select statement from opening a cursor
53 +   up to the last fetch.
54 +
55 + 6. DARWIN: uloadlibrary.inc bug fix. Many thanks to Luigi Naimi for correcting
56 +   the problem.
57 +
58 + 7. Type change: "TPerfCounters = array[TPerfStats] of Int64". Note "Int64"
59 +   replaces deprecated "comp" type.
60 +
61 + 10. Testsuite Test10 updated to include thread synchronisation for event reporting.
62 +
63 + 11. URL Connection Strings: inet4 and inet6 now recognised.
64 +
65 + 12. IBUtils: Parse and Make Connect String now recognise URL style loopback syntax.
66 +
67 + 13. IAttachment.CharSetName2CharSetID is now performed case insensitive.
68 +
69 +
70 + FBINTF Change Log  version (1.1-1) Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:51:16 +0000
71 +
72 + 1. IBUtils.QuoteIdentifierIfNeeded: Add check for space character.
73 +
74 + 2. IAttachment: add two new methods
75 +     function HasDefaultCharSet: boolean;
76 +     function GetDefaultCharSetID: integer;
77 +
78 +   These return, respectively, true if a connection default character set was
79 +   specified and the character set id of the connection default character set.
80 +   The DefaultCharSetID is cached when the connection is opened and hence does not
81 +   require a database lookup.
82 +
83 + 3. Avoid exception when a text blob is a stored procedure parameter.
84 +
85 + 4. Update test suite to include a test for a stored proc returning a text blob.
86 +
87 + 5. IAttachment: add
88 +      function GetRemoteProtocol: AnsiString;
89 +      function GetODSMajorVersion: integer;
90 +      function GetODSMinorVersion: integer;
91 +      function GetAuthenticationMethod: AnsiString;
92 +
93 +   These results are cached when the connection is opened and hence do not
94 +   require a database lookup.
95 +
96 + 6. IAttachment: add "function GetConnectString: AnsiString;" This returns the
97 +   connect string used to create/connect to the database.
98 +
99 + 7. IAttachment: Create Database using SQL statement. The username and password
100 +   are now extracted and used to populate a DPB made available via IAttachment.getDPB.
101 +   It is now possible to use IAttachment disconnect/connect to reconnect to
102 +   a database for which the initial connection was established by a create
103 +   database sql statement. Available in FPC only.
104 +
105 + 8. Update Test 1 to test 5, 6 and 7 above.
106 +
107 + 9. IBUtils code tidy up.
108 +
109 + 10. Parameter Block interfaces "find" method. As documented, this should have
110 +   returned a nil interface when the item could not be found. Instead, an empty
111 +   interface item was returned. "Find" now works as documented and will return
112 +   a nil interface if the item cannot be found.
113 +
114 + 11. DBInformation: support added for isc_info_active_tran_count and isc_info_creation_date.
115 +
116 + 12. DBInformation: New interfaces: IDIRB and IDIRBItem added to support DB Information
117 +    requests with additional parameters. This is to enable support for fb_info_page_contents
118 +    (return of page contents). Response to fb_info_page_contents returned as
119 +    a string with code page CP_NONE.
120 +
121 + 13. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_pages_used and fb_info_pages_free added, plus
122 +    test suite updated.
123 +
124 + 14. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_crypt_key (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as
125 +    a string type, and fb_info_conn_flags (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as an integer type.
126 +
127 + 15. Service Manager: List of protocols supported expanded to include inet, wnet and xnet.
128 +    An overloaded version of IIFirebirdAPI.GetServiceManager also allows a non
129 +    default connection port to be specified.
130 +
131 + FBINTF Change Log  version                             (1.1-0) Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:20:02 +0000
132 +
133 + 1. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Numeric types.
134 +   Scale is no longer ignored.
135 +
136 + 2. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Date values
137 +   not in locale format but which are recognised by Firebird. Date values that
138 +   cannot be converted to a string using Pascal library are now passed through
139 +   to Firebird as Text Strings.
140 +
141 + 3. Lookup character set name by codepage amended to ensure that CP_UTF8 returns
142 +   UTF8 and not UNICODE_FSS.
143 +
144 + 4. Charset ID problem. When using Firebird 3, with no default database character set
145 +   and a column has a non-default collation specified, an incorrect character set
146 +   id was being reported that could result in a 'division by zero' error when
147 +   used by IBX. This has now been fixed.
148 +
149 + 5. Move GetCharsetName, CharSetID2CodePage, CodePage2CharSetID, CharSetName2CharSetID,
150 +   CharSetWidth from IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment. This is a better data model as
151 +   the character sets supported can be updated on a per database basis. That is
152 +   it is possible to add a (Firebird) user defined character set to a database.
153 +
154 + 6. Add RegisterCharSet to IAttachment. This is used to register a user defined character
155 +   set supported by Firebird with the API.
156 +
157 + 7. Add missing isc_info_db_read_only to list of decoded Database Information items
158 +   in FBOutputBlock.pas and update test suite to include this item.
159 +
160 + 8. FB30Client: avoid always using "StartMultiple" when only a single database attachment.
161 +
162 + 9. Loading Windows fbclient.dll: when using the FIREBIRD variable to locate the client
163 +   library or finding it by disk location, the PATH environment variable is now also set to
164 +   include the FIREBIRD directory. This is to ensure that the correct dlls in the
165 +   firebird client library dependencies are loaded.
166 +
167 + 10. Testsuite: Ensure consistent UTF-8 output on Windows console.
168 +
169 + 11. Testsuite: Update Windows script to include FPC 3.0.4 in search path.
170 +
171 + 12. FB30Statement: Protect call to "Move" and avoid calling with a nil pointer
172 +
173 + 13. FB30Statement: A check has been added to ensure that all SQL Parameters
174 +    have been given a value (including NULL). Previously, failing to set the
175 +    value of an SQL Parameter could give rise to unpredictable results or
176 +    an SQLDA error.
177 +
178 + 14. FB30Statement/FB25Statement: Set SQLParam "modified" when string value set.
179 +
180 + 15. FBAttachment: Avoid string reference count error when processing an Ansistring
181 +    parameter in an array of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
182 +
183 + 16. FBAttachment: Allow for WideString and UnicodeString parameters in an array
184 +    of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
185 +
186 +
187 + FBINTF Change Log  version             (1.0-2) Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:43:56 +0000
188 +
189 + 1. Change syntax to Mode Delphi
190 +
191 + 2. Change all uses of string type to explicit AnsiString in order to ensure
192 +   compatibility between Delphi and FPC.
193 +
194 + 3. Various syntax changes to ensure Delphi and FPC compilation including GUIDs
195 +   defined for each interface.
196 +
197 + 4. Generics syntax variations for Delphi added
198 +
199 + 5. PChar replaced with PByte expect where an actual string is being referenced,
200 +   where PAnsiChar is used instead.
201 +
202 + 6. Review of type definitions in IBExternals to ensure Delphi compatibility
203 +
204 + 7. Testsuite updated for Delphi
205 +
206 + FBINTF Change Log  version            (1.0-1) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:57 +0000
207 +
208 + 1. Limit maximum Blob segment read/write to MaxuShort. Avoids data loss with
209 +   large blobs and the FB3 API.
210 +
211 + 2. Update Event Handling algorithm to avoid looping due to recreation of the
212 +   event block.
213 +
214 + 3. Avoid invalid XSQLDA error when the only parameter is updated to null
215 +
216 + 4. Array Handling: fix problem with text arrays with character set none. When the
217 +   DB connection has a default character set (e.g. UTF8), an error is raised by
218 +   Firebird if the space allocated is not enough to allow for transliteration, even
219 +   though it is not required for character set none.
220 +
221 + 5. IBUtils: List of reserved words brought up-to-date
222 +
223 + 6. Add ISQL style performance statistics collection to IStatement
224 +
225 + 7. Add IFirebirdAPI.CreateDatabase variant to allow execution of user provided
226 +   CREATE DATABASE statement.
227 +
228 + 8. Update SQL Statement parsing to allow for Array Dimensions. That is so that the ':' in
229 +   an array dimension is not mistaken for a named parameter prefix.
230 +
231 + 9. Trim function no longer applied to result of GetAsString for SQL_TEXT
232 +   when Character set is octets. Avoids loss of non printable characters at start of string.
233 +
234 + 10. Add function GetPerfStatistics to IStatement. This returns ISQL like performance
235 +    statistics for the last action. Requires use of procedure IStatement.EnableStatistics
236 +    to enable stats gathering.
237 +
238 + 11. API Version information added as constants to IB.pas
239 +
240 + 12. BlobMetaData character set id should now be the same as that given by IColumnMetaData.GetCharSetID
241 +
242 + 13. Firebird Character set "NONE" now interpreted as codepage CP_ACP.
243 +
244   FBINTF Change Log  version                                      (1.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:47 +0000
245  
246   1. Initial Release

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