Dear all,

OCILIB v4.8.0 is now available for download !

Get the release and enjoy it !

Enhancements (C API)

• Oracle VECTOR type is now supported
  • Requires Oracle 23.4 client and database
  • For prior Oracle clients, VECTOR type can be binded and fetched as string
  • Added OCI_Vector* data type (OCI_CDT_VECTOR)
  • Added the following new APIs:
    • OCI_VectorCreate()
    • OCI_VectorFree()
    • OCI_VectorArrayCreate()
    • OCI_VectorArrayFree()
    • OCI_VectorGetInfo()
    • OCI_VectorGetValues()
    • OCI_VectorSetValues()
    • OCI_VectorFromText()
    • OCI_VectorToText()
    • OCI_GetVector()
    • OCI_GetVector2()
    • OCI_RegisterVector()
    • OCI_BindVector()
    • OCI_BindArrayOfVectors()
    • OCI_ColumnGetDimension()
  • Added Vector element types : OCI_VEC_INT8, OCI_VEC_FLOAT32, OCI_VEC_FLOAT64 and OCI_VEC_BINARY (OCI_VEC_FLEX is only used for describing column)
  • Vector element type OCI_VEC_BINARY is only supported from 23.5
  • OCI_ColumnGetType() reports “VECTOR” as SQL type
  • OCI_ColumnGetFullSQLType() reports same details as SQLPlus( e.g., VECTOR({dimension}, {type]) )
  • OCI_ColumnGetSubType() returns OCI_VEC_XXX values
  • OCI_GetString() returns a string representation of a VECTOR object
• Added the ability to retrived localized strings from Oracle client
  • Added OCI_LST_XXX entries
  • Added OCI_GetLocaleString()

Enhancements (C++ API)

• Oracle VECTOR type is now supported (see C API for more details)
  • Added ocilib::Vector class wrapping OCI_Vector* handle
  • Added ocilib::Column::GetDimension() method
• Added the ability to retrived localized strings from Oracle client
  • Added ocilib::Environment::LocaleCode enum
  • Added ocilib::Environment::GetLocaleString() method

Fixes (C API)

• Issue 371 : Build failure with gcc14
• Issue 377 : Binding arrays of non scalar types (big_int/OCI_Datetime/OCI_Timestamp/OCI_Interval) with a PL/SQL block statement provides NULL values to Oracle client

Fixes (C++ API)

• Issue 370 : Calling Environment::Initialized() before Environment::Initialize() throws an exception

Vincent