Revision history for Perl extension CDB_File.
0.93
- Switched to allocating memory on the heap. I have no idea how the
previous scheme worked at all. It should have fallen over everywhere.
- Fixed a bug where you re-tie the same hash and CDB_File complains
about calling NEXT before calling FIRST.
0.92
- Fixed major set of leaks in both memory and filehandles
- Change of ownership to Matt Sergeant
0.91 2001-12-18
- fix memory leak (thanks MJP)
- document and test that multi_get returns ref to empty hash
- beta release
0.86 2001-05-25
- add handle, datalen, and datapos methods for low level access
- simplify multi_get, and remove a memory leak
- document need to destroy extra references
- open files in binary mode (thanks IW)
- use mmap() (thanks RDW)
- beta release
0.85 2001-02-06
- multi_get now works during each (thanks MdlR)
- move multi_get to CDB_File.xs, remove dumb O(n*n), and fix bug
- don't make the database files read-only (thanks FL)
- beta release
0.84 2000-11-21
- backwards compatibility with perl-5.005 (thanks BD)
- EPROTO not available everywhere (thanks BD); EFTYPE preferred
- beta release
0.83 2000-11-03
- fix stupid typo
- beta release
0.82 2000-05-30
- fix bug in `each', introduced in 0.81
- beta release
0.81 2000-05-12
- port to perl 5.6.0
- cdb code derived from cdb-0.75
- cdb code incorporated into CDB_File.xs
- multi_get works even for non-adjacent keys
- fetching values in order from previously obtained keys array works
- use perlapio
0.8 1999-09-08
- fix bug with undefined keys / values (thanks CMC, JPB)
- beta release
0.7 1997-10-20
- use Perl's Strerror instead of strerror
- fix bogus warning in multi_get (thanks MdlR)
- fix bug with empty values (thanks RDM)
- don't fail test 6 if run as root (thanks MP, JB)
- alpha release
0.6 1997-03-25
- fix unsigned off_t bug
- fix version number confusion
- propagate Perl's idea of CC and LD to cdb (thanks IP, SB)
- use safe cdb_bread() in preference to read() (thanks MdlR)
- object is now a scalar again, containing struct cdbobj
- support repeated keys (thanks MdlR)
- split create into new, insert, finish
- optimize FETCH and NEXTKEY
- support building as a static extension
- PERLIO_NOT_STDIO so it works with useperlio defined (thanks AK, NMS)
- add multi_get method (thanks MdlR)
- fix some core dumps (thanks MdlR)
- make cdb object read only (thanks MdlR)
- alpha release
0.5 1997-02-12
- fix order of @ISA, so imports work
- alpha release
0.4 1997-02-06
- iteration (FIRSTKEY, NEXTKEY) added
- "pre-alpha" release
0.3 1997-01-28
- no longer dependent on cdbmake
- CDB_File::cdbm removed
- temporary file name no longer optional
- "pre-alpha" release
0.2 1997-01-14
- first "pre-alpha" release
0.1 1997-01-08
- original version; created by h2xs 1.16