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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst16
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst7
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index ecf6afcc5..1260c26e5 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Added dsn if the group connections in the config use PDO or any driver which need DSN.
- Improved PDO database support.
- An optional database name parameter was added db_select().
+ - Improved support of the Oracle (OCI8) driver, including:
+ - Added DSN string support (Easy Connect and TNS).
+ - Added support for dropping tables to :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
+ - Added support for listing database schemas to :doc:`Database Utilities <database/utilities>`.
+ - Generally improved for speed and cleaned up all of its components.
+ - *Row* result methods now really only fetch only the needed number of rows, instead of depending entirely on result().
+ - num_rows() is now only called explicitly by the developer and no longer re-executes statements.
- Libraries
@@ -87,8 +94,7 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
------------------
- Unlink raised an error if cache file did not exist when you try to delete it.
-- Fixed a bug (#181) where a mis-spelling was in the form validation
- language file.
+- Fixed a bug (#181) where a mis-spelling was in the form validation language file.
- Fixed a bug (#159, #163) that mishandled Active Record nested transactions because _trans_depth was not getting incremented.
- Fixed a bug (#737, #75) where pagination anchor class was not set properly when using initialize method.
- Fixed a bug (#419) - auto_link() now recognizes URLs that come after a word boundary.
@@ -122,6 +128,8 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- Fixed a bug in PDO's insert_id() method where it could've failed if it's used with Postgre versions prior to 8.1.
- Fixed a bug in CUBRID's affected_rows() method where a connection resource was passed to cubrid_affected_rows() instead of a result.
- Fixed a bug (#638) - db_set_charset() ignored its arguments and always used the configured charset and collation instead.
+- Fixed a bug in the Oracle (oci8) instance of :doc:`Database Forge Class <database/forge>` where create_table() would fail if used with AUTO_INCREMENT as it's not supported by Oracle.
+- Fixed a bug (#413) - The Oracle (oci8) database driver only used to return connection-related errors in _error_message() and _error_number().
Version 2.1.1
=============
@@ -204,11 +212,9 @@ Release Date: November 14, 2011
override them.
- Removed CI_CORE boolean constant from CodeIgniter.php (no longer Reactor and Core versions).
-
Bug fixes for 2.1.0
-------------------
-
- Fixed #378 Robots identified as regular browsers by the User Agent
class.
- If a config class was loaded first then a library with the same name
@@ -1207,7 +1213,7 @@ Bug fixes for 1.6.3
- Added a language key for valid_emails in validation_lang.php.
- Amended fixes for bug (#3419) with parsing DSN database connections.
-- Moved the _has_operators() function (#4535) into DB_driver from
+- Moved the _has_operator() function (#4535) into DB_driver from
DB_active_rec.
- Fixed a syntax error in upload_lang.php.
- Fixed a bug (#4542) with a regular expression in the Image library.
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst
index 4f93c794d..de4a337cb 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst
@@ -150,6 +150,13 @@ is the variable that the query result object is assigned to::
echo $query->num_rows();
+.. note:: Oracle (OCI8 driver) doesn't have a way of returning the
+ total number of rows in a result set without actually fetching
+ all of them. The only way to achieve this is to get all of the
+ results first and do a ``count()`` on the resulting array,
+ therefore you can't use ``num_rows()`` to increase performance
+ when using the OCI8 driver.
+
$query->num_fields()
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