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1 FBINTF Change Log version (1.2-0 Build 12520) Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:27:23 +0000
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3 1. Imported (Firebird) constants updated for Firebird 4.
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5 2. Firebird.pas from Firebird 4 integrated into source code tree.
6
7 3. Added Support for TIMETAMP WITH TIME ZONE and TIME WITH TIME ZONE data types.
8
9 4. Added Support for SQL_DEC16, SQL_DEC34 and extended NUMERIC precision.
10
11 5. New unit 'FBClientLib.pas' added and provides new interface IFBIMasterProvider.
12 QueryInterface may be used to coerce this interface from IFirebirdAPI. The
13 interface provides a single method "function GetIMasterIntf: IMaster". This provides
14 type safe access to the Firebird IMaster interface and avoids the need to turn
15 off object checks when coercing "function GetIMaster: TObject" to IMaster.
16
17 6. New IFirebirdAPI Calls:
18 function HasLocalTZDB: boolean;
19 function HasTimeZoneSupport: boolean;
20 function HasExtendedTZSupport: boolean;
21 procedure SQLDecFloatEncode(aValue: tBCD; SQLType: cardinal; bufptr: PByte);
22 function SQLDecFloatDecode(SQLType: cardinal; scale: integer; bufptr: PByte): tBCD;
23
24 7. New IAttachment Calls:
25 function HasDecFloatSupport: boolean;
26 function GetTimeZoneServices: ITimeZoneServices;
27 function HasTimeZoneSupport: boolean;
28
29 8. New Interface ITimeZoneServices.
30
31 9. New ISQLData API Calls:
32 procedure GetAsDateTime(var aDateTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
33 procedure GetAsDateTime(var aDateTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezone: AnsiString); overload;
34 procedure GetAsTime(var aTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezoneID: TFBTimeZoneID; OnDate: TDateTime); overload;
35 procedure GetAsTime(var aTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezone: AnsiString; OnDate: TDateTime); overload;
36 function GetAsUTCDateTime: TDateTime;
37 function GetAsBCD: tBCD;
38
39 10. New ISQLParam API Calls
40 procedure GetAsDateTime(var aDateTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
41 procedure GetAsDateTime(var aDateTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezone: AnsiString); overload;
42 procedure GetAsTime(var aTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezoneID: TFBTimeZoneID; OnDate: TDateTime); overload;
43 procedure GetAsTime(var aTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezone: AnsiString; OnDate: TDateTime); overload;
44 function GetAsUTCDateTime: TDateTime;
45 function GetAsBCD: tBCD;
46 function GetStatement: IStatement;
47 function GetTransaction: ITransaction;
48 procedure SetAsTime(aValue: TDateTime; OnDate: TDateTime; aTimeZoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
49 procedure SetAsTime(aValue: TDateTime; OnDate: TDateTime; aTimeZone: AnsiString); overload;
50 procedure SetAsDateTime(aValue: TDateTime; aTimeZoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
51 procedure SetAsDateTime(aValue: TDateTime; aTimeZone: AnsiString); overload;
52 procedure SetAsUTCDateTime(aUTCTime: TDateTime);
53 procedure SetAsBcd(aValue: tBCD);
54
55 11. New IArray API Calls
56 procedure GetAsDateTime(index: array of integer; var aDateTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
57 procedure GetAsDateTime(index: array of integer; var aDateTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezone: AnsiString); overload;
58 procedure GetAsTime(index: array of integer; var aTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezoneID: TFBTimeZoneID; OnDate: TDateTime); overload;
59 procedure GetAsTime(index: array of integer; var aTime: TDateTime; var dstOffset: smallint; var aTimezone: AnsiString; OnDate: TDateTime); overload;
60 function GetAsUTCDateTime(index: array of integer): TDateTime;
61 procedure SetAsDateTime(index: array of integer; aValue: TDateTime; aTimeZoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
62 procedure SetAsDateTime(index: array of integer; aValue: TDateTime; aTimeZone: AnsiString); overload;
63 procedure SetAsTime(index: array of integer; aValue: TDateTime; OnDate: TDateTime; aTimeZoneID: TFBTimeZoneID); overload;
64 procedure SetAsTime(index: array of integer; aValue: TDateTime; OnDate: TDateTime; aTimeZone: AnsiString); overload;
65
66 12. Utility functions in IBUtils
67 function ParseDateTimeTZString(aDateTimeStr: Ansistring; var aDateTime: TDateTime;
68 var aTimezone: AnsiString; aFormatSettings: TFormatSettings; TimeOnly: boolean=false): boolean;
69 procedure FBDecodeTime(aTime: TDateTime; var Hour, Minute, Second: word; var DeciMillisecond: cardinal);
70 function FBEncodeTime(Hour, Minute, Second, DeciMillisecond: cardinal): TDateTime;
71 function FBFormatDateTime(fmt: AnsiString; aDateTime: TDateTime): AnsiString;
72 function FormatTimeZoneOffset(EffectiveTimeOffsetMins: integer): AnsiString;
73 function DecodeTimeZoneOffset(TZOffset: AnsiString; var dstOffset: integer): boolean;
74
75 13. IDPB, ITPB and ISPB: new interface method
76 function AddByTypeName(ParamTypeName: AnsiString): IDPBItem/ITPBItem/ISPBItem;
77 This is used to add a parameter block item by the string equivalent of its
78 symbolic type name. e.g. DPB.AddByTypeName('isc_dpb_user_name').AsString := '...'
79
80 14. IDPBItem/ITPBItem/ISPBItem: new interface method:
81 function getParamTypeName: AnsiString;
82
83 15. fb_shutdown now called before unloading Firebird library. This can avoid a
84 SIGEVENT error when a programme using the embeded server is unloaded.
85
86 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-6 Build 12237) Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:54:21 +0100
87
88 1. GetImplementationVersion now correctly returns '3.0' for Firebird 3 API
89 with a Firebrid 3 client library.
90
91 2. Linux Only: FIREBIRD environment variable is now checked when loading the client library.
92 If a client library path is not explicitly provided and the FIREBIRD environment
93 variable is set then the directory given by this variable and any 'lib' subdirectory
94 are searched for the Firebird client library. Only if none is found, is the default
95 client library used.
96
97 3. IUtil.FormatStatus now used to format error messages when using new API
98
99 4. Fixed Array SDL: array_desc_scale now correctly encoded as a signed integer.
100
101 5. SQL_TEXT handling changed. When the value of an SQL_TEXT (i.e. fixed width string) column is
102 returned using GetAsString and the string codepage is UTF8, the string is truncated so
103 that the byte length corresponds to the number of characters specified for the column.
104 SQL_TEXT strings are no longer automatically trimmed to remove all trailing white space. This is
105 correct behaviour but may affect some implementations that relied upon automatic
106 trimming of trailing white space.
107
108 6. New IFirebirdAPI Calls:
109 function GetClientMajor: integer;
110 function GetClientMinor: integer;
111
112 7. IColumnMetaData and IArrayMetaData: new method
113 function GetCharSetWidth: integer;
114
115 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-5 Build 12022) Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:35:55 +0100
116
117 1. ISQLParams.GetHasCaseSensitiveParams added. Returns true if param names are
118 case sensitive
119
120 2. Single line SQL comments starting with '--' are now recognised by SQL Parser.
121
122 3. New API Calls:
123 IColumnMetaData.GetStatement
124 IColumnMetaData.GetTransaction
125 ISQLData.GetStrDataLength
126 IResults.GetStatement
127 IAttachment.OpenBlob (using Blob metadata)
128 IAttachment.OpenArray (using array metadata)
129
130 4. FBMessages: removal of unused messages
131
132 5. TFBArray.Create (2nd case): ensure that FFirebirdClientAPI is correctly set.
133
134 6. TIBSQLStatementType: SQLSavePoint added to end of enumeration.
135
136 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-4 Build 11515) Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:04:19 +0000
137
138 1. Fix a problem with the SQL parameter parser that failed to recognise parameters
139 where the second character of the parameter name is a numeric.
140
141 2. New method for IAttachment: procedure getFBVersion(version: TStrings);
142 This returns the isc_version connection information as one or more lines.
143 This is the same information as returned by isql with the -z option.
144
145 3. If -dFIREBIRD3APIONLY is used as a compiler option then the legacy Firebird API
146 is no longer compiled in. Likewise, if -dLEGACYFIREBIRDAPIONLY is used as a
147 compiler option then the Firebird 3 API is no longer compiled in.
148
149 4. IColumnMetaData: new method.
150
151 TIBDateTimeFormats = (dfTimestamp, {SQL TIMESTAMP}
152 dfDateTime, {SQL DATETIME}
153 dfTime);
154
155 function GetDateTimeStrLength(DateTimeFormat: TIBDateTimeFormats): integer;
156
157 This returns the max. number of characters returned by the "AsString" method
158 when the SQL type of the column is respectively TIMESTAMP, DATETIME or TIME.
159
160 5. Additional argument for IAttachment.PrepareWithNamedParameters -
161 CaseSensitiveParams: boolean = false
162
163 If this argument is set to true then SQL parameter names are assumed to be case
164 sensitive and must be referenced (using ISQLParams.ByName) using the case
165 sensitive name.
166
167 6. Bug fix: when setting a query parameter, it is now possible, when the parameter
168 is of type VarChar or Char to set the parameter to a numeric value (e.g. using
169 .AsCurrency) and then subsequently to update the value to a non-numeric string
170 using .AsString.
171
172
173
174 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-3) Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:28:10 +0000
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176 1. DARWIN only syntax error: fix missing semi-colon in TFBClientAPI.LoadIBLibrary
177
178 2. Restrict IsMultiThread check to Unix only for compatibility with
179 https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30535
180
181 3. New SQL Tokeniser added to IBUtils. This is used to pre-process SQL with
182 named parameters and is intended to avoid problems with (e.g.) Execute Block
183 and processing internal parameters as statement parameters.
184
185 4. New interface IFirebirdLibrary provides access to the underlying firebird DLL
186 or shared object. Available via a new member (GetFBLibrary) of IFirebirdAPI.
187
188 5. New function added to IB.pas
189
190 function LoadFBLibrary(aLibPathName: string): IFirebirdLibrary
191
192 This allows a Firebird Library to be loaded from an explicit path. use the
193 IFirebirdLibrary.GetFirebirdAPI member function to get the Firebird API using
194 the library. It is possible to load Firebird libraries from different locations
195 simultaneously, each with a distinct IFirebirdAPI.
196
197 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-2) Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:32 +0100
198
199 1. Firebird.pas: {$OBJECTCHECKS OFF} added to file to avoid runtime error when
200 program compiled with -CR command line switch.
201
202 2. IServiceManager additions (informational):
203 function getProtocol: TProtocol;
204 function getPortNo: AnsiString;
205
206 3. IServiceManager improved error handling. Interfaces changed:
207 function Start(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true): boolean;
208 function Query(SQPB: ISQPB; Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
209 function Query(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
210
211 4. IAttachment addition (informational)
212 function GetSecurityDatabase: AnsiString;
213
214 5. IStatement: performance counters now updated after each Fetch. GetPerfStatistics
215 thus now returns accumulated stats for a select statement from opening a cursor
216 up to the last fetch.
217
218 6. DARWIN: uloadlibrary.inc bug fix. Many thanks to Luigi Naimi for correcting
219 the problem.
220
221 7. Type change: "TPerfCounters = array[TPerfStats] of Int64". Note "Int64"
222 replaces deprecated "comp" type.
223
224 10. Testsuite Test10 updated to include thread synchronisation for event reporting.
225
226 11. URL Connection Strings: inet4 and inet6 now recognised.
227
228 12. IBUtils: Parse and Make Connect String now recognise URL style loopback syntax.
229
230 13. IAttachment.CharSetName2CharSetID is now performed case insensitive.
231
232
233 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-1) Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:51:16 +0000
234
235 1. IBUtils.QuoteIdentifierIfNeeded: Add check for space character.
236
237 2. IAttachment: add two new methods
238 function HasDefaultCharSet: boolean;
239 function GetDefaultCharSetID: integer;
240
241 These return, respectively, true if a connection default character set was
242 specified and the character set id of the connection default character set.
243 The DefaultCharSetID is cached when the connection is opened and hence does not
244 require a database lookup.
245
246 3. Avoid exception when a text blob is a stored procedure parameter.
247
248 4. Update test suite to include a test for a stored proc returning a text blob.
249
250 5. IAttachment: add
251 function GetRemoteProtocol: AnsiString;
252 function GetODSMajorVersion: integer;
253 function GetODSMinorVersion: integer;
254 function GetAuthenticationMethod: AnsiString;
255
256 These results are cached when the connection is opened and hence do not
257 require a database lookup.
258
259 6. IAttachment: add "function GetConnectString: AnsiString;" This returns the
260 connect string used to create/connect to the database.
261
262 7. IAttachment: Create Database using SQL statement. The username and password
263 are now extracted and used to populate a DPB made available via IAttachment.getDPB.
264 It is now possible to use IAttachment disconnect/connect to reconnect to
265 a database for which the initial connection was established by a create
266 database sql statement. Available in FPC only.
267
268 8. Update Test 1 to test 5, 6 and 7 above.
269
270 9. IBUtils code tidy up.
271
272 10. Parameter Block interfaces "find" method. As documented, this should have
273 returned a nil interface when the item could not be found. Instead, an empty
274 interface item was returned. "Find" now works as documented and will return
275 a nil interface if the item cannot be found.
276
277 11. DBInformation: support added for isc_info_active_tran_count and isc_info_creation_date.
278
279 12. DBInformation: New interfaces: IDIRB and IDIRBItem added to support DB Information
280 requests with additional parameters. This is to enable support for fb_info_page_contents
281 (return of page contents). Response to fb_info_page_contents returned as
282 a string with code page CP_NONE.
283
284 13. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_pages_used and fb_info_pages_free added, plus
285 test suite updated.
286
287 14. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_crypt_key (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as
288 a string type, and fb_info_conn_flags (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as an integer type.
289
290 15. Service Manager: List of protocols supported expanded to include inet, wnet and xnet.
291 An overloaded version of IIFirebirdAPI.GetServiceManager also allows a non
292 default connection port to be specified.
293
294 FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-0) Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:20:02 +0000
295
296 1. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Numeric types.
297 Scale is no longer ignored.
298
299 2. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Date values
300 not in locale format but which are recognised by Firebird. Date values that
301 cannot be converted to a string using Pascal library are now passed through
302 to Firebird as Text Strings.
303
304 3. Lookup character set name by codepage amended to ensure that CP_UTF8 returns
305 UTF8 and not UNICODE_FSS.
306
307 4. Charset ID problem. When using Firebird 3, with no default database character set
308 and a column has a non-default collation specified, an incorrect character set
309 id was being reported that could result in a 'division by zero' error when
310 used by IBX. This has now been fixed.
311
312 5. Move GetCharsetName, CharSetID2CodePage, CodePage2CharSetID, CharSetName2CharSetID,
313 CharSetWidth from IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment. This is a better data model as
314 the character sets supported can be updated on a per database basis. That is
315 it is possible to add a (Firebird) user defined character set to a database.
316
317 6. Add RegisterCharSet to IAttachment. This is used to register a user defined character
318 set supported by Firebird with the API.
319
320 7. Add missing isc_info_db_read_only to list of decoded Database Information items
321 in FBOutputBlock.pas and update test suite to include this item.
322
323 8. FB30Client: avoid always using "StartMultiple" when only a single database attachment.
324
325 9. Loading Windows fbclient.dll: when using the FIREBIRD variable to locate the client
326 library or finding it by disk location, the PATH environment variable is now also set to
327 include the FIREBIRD directory. This is to ensure that the correct dlls in the
328 firebird client library dependencies are loaded.
329
330 10. Testsuite: Ensure consistent UTF-8 output on Windows console.
331
332 11. Testsuite: Update Windows script to include FPC 3.0.4 in search path.
333
334 12. FB30Statement: Protect call to "Move" and avoid calling with a nil pointer
335
336 13. FB30Statement: A check has been added to ensure that all SQL Parameters
337 have been given a value (including NULL). Previously, failing to set the
338 value of an SQL Parameter could give rise to unpredictable results or
339 an SQLDA error.
340
341 14. FB30Statement/FB25Statement: Set SQLParam "modified" when string value set.
342
343 15. FBAttachment: Avoid string reference count error when processing an Ansistring
344 parameter in an array of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
345
346 16. FBAttachment: Allow for WideString and UnicodeString parameters in an array
347 of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
348
349
350 FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-2) Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:43:56 +0000
351
352 1. Change syntax to Mode Delphi
353
354 2. Change all uses of string type to explicit AnsiString in order to ensure
355 compatibility between Delphi and FPC.
356
357 3. Various syntax changes to ensure Delphi and FPC compilation including GUIDs
358 defined for each interface.
359
360 4. Generics syntax variations for Delphi added
361
362 5. PChar replaced with PByte expect where an actual string is being referenced,
363 where PAnsiChar is used instead.
364
365 6. Review of type definitions in IBExternals to ensure Delphi compatibility
366
367 7. Testsuite updated for Delphi
368
369 FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-1) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:57 +0000
370
371 1. Limit maximum Blob segment read/write to MaxuShort. Avoids data loss with
372 large blobs and the FB3 API.
373
374 2. Update Event Handling algorithm to avoid looping due to recreation of the
375 event block.
376
377 3. Avoid invalid XSQLDA error when the only parameter is updated to null
378
379 4. Array Handling: fix problem with text arrays with character set none. When the
380 DB connection has a default character set (e.g. UTF8), an error is raised by
381 Firebird if the space allocated is not enough to allow for transliteration, even
382 though it is not required for character set none.
383
384 5. IBUtils: List of reserved words brought up-to-date
385
386 6. Add ISQL style performance statistics collection to IStatement
387
388 7. Add IFirebirdAPI.CreateDatabase variant to allow execution of user provided
389 CREATE DATABASE statement.
390
391 8. Update SQL Statement parsing to allow for Array Dimensions. That is so that the ':' in
392 an array dimension is not mistaken for a named parameter prefix.
393
394 9. Trim function no longer applied to result of GetAsString for SQL_TEXT
395 when Character set is octets. Avoids loss of non printable characters at start of string.
396
397 10. Add function GetPerfStatistics to IStatement. This returns ISQL like performance
398 statistics for the last action. Requires use of procedure IStatement.EnableStatistics
399 to enable stats gathering.
400
401 11. API Version information added as constants to IB.pas
402
403 12. BlobMetaData character set id should now be the same as that given by IColumnMetaData.GetCharSetID
404
405 13. Firebird Character set "NONE" now interpreted as codepage CP_ACP.
406
407 FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:47 +0000
408
409 1. Initial Release
410