History.md

1.7.3 / 2016-10-03

• Changes and bug fixes

• Respect ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = :utc rather than connection time_zone value [#755, #998]

• Known issues

• No changes since 1.7.0.rc1

1.7.2 / 2016-09-19

• Changes and bug fixes

• Remove ruby-oci8 from runtime dependency [#992,#995]

• Update README to add gem 'ruby-oci8' explicitly for CRuby users [#992, #995]

• Known issues

• No changes since 1.7.0.rc1

1.7.1 / 2016-08-22

• Changes and bug fixes

• Add ActiveRecord::OracleEnhanced::Type::Boolean [#985, #979]

• Address create_table': undefined method each_pair' for []:Array (NoMethodError) [#980]

• Deprecate fallback_string_to_date, fallback_string_to_time [#974]

• Known issues

• No changes since 1.7.0.rc1

1.7.0 / 2016-08-04

• Changes and bug fixes

• No changes since 1.7.0.rc1

• Known issues

• No changes since 1.7.0.rc1

1.7.0.rc1 / 2016-08-02

• Changes and bug fixes

• Support emulate_booleans_from_strings in Rails 5 [#953, #942]

• Deprecate self.is_boolean_column? [#949]

• Deprecate self.is_date_column? and is_date_column? [#950]

• Deprecate set_type_for_columns, set_type_for_columns and clear_types_for_columns [#951]

• Deprecate self.is_integer_column? [#952]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]
  • Workaround: execute explain without bind or use CRuby

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : custom methods for create record when exception is raised in after_create callback fails [#944]
• Rails 5 : specs need update to emulate_booleans_from_strings [#942]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]
  • #848 reproduces when database version is 11gR2 or older, it does not reproduce with 12c
  • One of the units test skipped when database version is 11gR2 or lower. [#946]

1.7.0.beta7 / 2016-08-01

• Changes and bug fixes

• Use OracleEnhanced::SchemaDumper#tables and #table only if they have Oracle enhanced specific features [#947, #797]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : custom methods for create record when exception is raised in after_create callback fails [#944]
• Rails 5 : emulate_booleans_from_strings support [#942]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]
  • #848 reproduces when database version is 11gR2 or older, it does not reproduce with 12c
  • One of the units test skipped when database version is 11gR2 or lower. [#946]

1.7.0.beta6 / 2016-07-29

• Changes and bug fixes

• Use attributes.keys to update all attributes when partial_write is disabled [#906 #943]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : custom methods for create record when exception is raised in after_create callback fails [#944]
• Rails 5 : emulate_booleans_from_strings support [#942]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]
  • #848 reproduces when database version is 11gR2 or older, it does not reproduce with 12c

1.7.0.beta5 / 2016-07-28

• Changes and bug fixes

• Use binds.size to set returning_id_index for returning_id [#907, #912 and #939]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : custom methods for create, update and destroy not working [#906]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]
  • #848 reproduces when database version is 11gR2 or older, it does not reproduce with 12c

1.7.0.beta4 / 2016-07-27

• Changes and bug fixes

• Call bind_returning_param when sql has returning_id and using JRuby [#937]

• Remove unused col_type to avoid warnings [#934]

• Remove TODO comment since Oracle DATE type can be mapped Rails Datetime with attribute API [#935]

• Remove rspec from runtime dependency [#933]

• Rename add_dependency to add_runtime_dependency [#933]

• Remove warnings for + when tested with JRuby 9.1.2 [#936]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger with default primary key not returning id [#912]
  • #937 addresses two failures reported in #912
• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger not returning id [#907]
• Rails 5 : custom methods for create, update and destroy not working [#906]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]

1.7.0.beta3 / 2016-07-22

• Changes and bug fixes

• Not giving bind_param a 3rd argument column [#929, #909]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger with default primary key not returning id [#912]
• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger not returning id [#907]
• Rails 5 : custom methods for create, update and destroy not working [#906]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]

1.7.0.beta2 / 2016-07-22

• Changes and bug fixes

• Support CLOB for JRuby [#926, #910, #911]

• Arel 7.1.0 or higher version is required [#919]

• Document usage of ActiveRecord Attributes API in 1.7 [#924]

• Add a note about usage pecularities of context_index's index_column option to README [#924]

• Set required_ruby_version = '>= 2.2.2' [#916]

• Remove ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::TableDefinition#aliased_types [#921]

• Update warning message for composite primary keys [#923]

• Remove specs deprecated in Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7 [#917]

• Rails 5 : has_and_belongs_to_many test gets ORA-01400 since primary key column "ID" not included in insert statement [#856, rails/rails#25388, rails/rails#25578 ]

  • This fix will be included in the next version of Rails which should be named 5.0.1

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger with default primary key not returning id [#912]
• Rails 5 : SQL with bind parameters when NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS is set to ', ' show Java::JavaSql::SQLSyntaxErrorException: / ORA-01722: invalid number [#909]
• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger not returning id [#907]
• Rails 5 : custom methods for create, update and destroy not working [#906]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]

1.7.0.beta1 / 2016-07-18

• Major enhancements

• Support Rails 5.0

• Use Arel::Visitors::Oracle12 to use better top-N query support [#671]

• Oracle TIMESTAMP sql type is associated with Rails DateTime type [#845]

• Rails :time as Oracle TIMESTAMP to support subsecond precision [#817, #816]

• Rails :datetime as Oracle TIMESTAMP to support subsecond precision [#739]

• Remove ActiveRecord::OracleEnhanced::Type::Timestamp [#815]

• Deprecate quote_date_with_to_date and quote_timestamp_with_to_timestamp [#879]

• Deprecate set_boolean_columns and set_string_columns [#874]

• Deprecate `set_integer_columns [#872]

• Deprecate set_date_columns and set_datetime_columns [#869]

• Deprecate ignore_table_columns to use Rails native ignored_columns [#855]

• Set :datetime for an attribute explicitly [#875, #876]

• Support #views #738

• Replace table_exists? with data_source_exists? [#842]

• Introduce data_source_exists? to return tables and views [#841]

• Implement primary_keys to prepare dumping composite primary key [#860]

• Support for any type primary key [#836]

• Dump composite primary keys [#863]

• Dump type and options for non default primary keys [#861]

• Support creating foreign keys in create table [#862]

• Support ActiveRecord native comment feature [#822, #821, #819]

• Changes and bug fixes

• Fix cast_type issue [#795]

• Rename quote_value to quote_default_expression [#661]

• Change bind parameters order to come offset first then limit next [#831]

• type_cast arity change [#781]

• Initial support for sql_type_metadata [#656]

• Support bind_params for JDBC connections [#806]

• Use all_* dictionary replacing user_* ones [#713]

• Register NUMBER(1) sql_type to Type::Boolean [#844]

• Add ActiveRecord::ValueTooLong exception class [#827]

• Not passing native_database_types to TableDefinition [#747]

• Ignore index name in index_exists? when not passed a name to check for [#840]

• Add reversible syntax for change_column_default [#839]

• Support Oracle national character set NCHAR, NVARCHAR2 [#886]

• Support "limited" :returning_id [#894, #803]

• Support RAW sql data type in Rails 5 [#877]

• Remove serialized_attributes which is removed in Rails 5 [#694]

• Add deprecation warning for bind_param [#809]

• Remove self.string_to_raw from Column which is not called anymore [#813]

• Remove type_cast from Column [#811]

• Remove deprecated distinct method [#771]

• Remove alias_method_chain and rename oracle_enhanced_table to table [#864]

• Warn if AR.primary_key is called for a table with composite primary key [#837]

• Remove select method from Oracle enhanced adapter [#784]

• Remove version check to see if ::Rails::Railtie exists [#769]

• Remove FALSE_VALUES [#716]

• Remove TRUE_VALUES from OracleEnhancedColumn [#646]

• Remove insert_sql method [#866, #890]

• Rails5 remove require bind visitor [#853]

• substitute_at has been removed from Rails [#849]

• Serialize value for lob columns [#878]

• Do not cache prepared statements that are unlikely to have cache hits [#748]

• Handle BLOB type correctly [#804]

• Move ActiveRecord::Type to ActiveModel [#723]

• Remove cast_type to support Rails 5 Attribute API [#867]

• Handle ActiveModel::Type::Binary::Data type cast in _type_cast [#826]

• Use Abstract adapter dump_schema_information implementation [#857]

• Use ActiveRecord initialize_schema_migrations_table [#843]

• Use ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper#ignored? [#838]

• Use Abstract adapter join_to_update [#801, #800]

• Use ActiveRecord::OracleEnhanced::Type::Text [#887]

• Use ActiveRecord::OracleEnhanced::Type::String [#883]

• Use OracleEnhanced::ColumnDefinition [#650]

• Move to ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhanced::SchemaDumper [#695]

• ColumnDumper uses Module#prepend [#696]

• Migrate from OracleEnhancedSchemaStatementExt to OracleEnhanced::SchemaStatementsExt [#768]

• Extract ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhanced::Quoting [#764]

• Use keyword arguments for new table options [#820]

• Move ruby_to_java_value logic to _type_cast [#904]

• OracleEnhancedColumn.new needs sql_type_metadata including sql_type [#858]

• OracleEnhanced::JDBCQuoting and OCIQuoting [#897]

• Address add_column_options!': undefined method quote_value' [#647]

• Remove dirty tracking methods [#883]

• Use arel master branch for rails5 development [#645]

• Bump ruby-oci8 version to 2.2.0 or higher [#775]

• Remove jeweler dependency [#766]

• Remove required_rubygems_version [#719]

• Remove journey which is already part of Rails [#701]

• Remove dependencies with non activerecord gems [#700]

• Remove activerecord-deprecated_finders [#698]

• Use rack master branch [#697]

• Clean up gemspec file and bump rspec, ruby-plsql and ruby-oci8 versions [#717]

• Remove magic comment for utf-8 [#772, #726]

• add_dependency with ruby-oci8 only if it runs cruby, not jruby [#902]

• Install ruby-debug for jruby [#899]

• Address dirty object tracking should not mark empty text as changed [#888]

• Revert "Update matcher to skip sql statements to get table metadata" [#881]

• No need to set @visitor instance variable here [#854]

• log binds should not be type_casted [#818]

• Fix schema dumper errors [#810]

• Address undefined method `cast_type' [#805]

• Better fix to support "Relation#count does not support finder options anymore in Rails [#788, #787]

• ActiveRecord::Calculations#count no longer accepts an options hash argument #754

• Supress WARNINGs using raise_error without specific errors [#724]

• Use RSpec 3 [#707]

• Update "OracleEnhancedAdapter boolean type detection based on string column types and names" [#873]

• Update "OracleEnhancedAdapter integer type detection based on column names" [#871]

• Update "OracleEnhancedAdapter date type detection based on column names" [#868]

• Do not set emulate_dates_by_column_name or emulate_dates in specs [#870]

• Update rake spec message to show default branch name as master [#648]

• Remove ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = :local from spec_helper [#901]

• Update to rspec3 syntax to avoid deprecation notices [#776]

• Remove RAILS_GEM_VERSION [#702]

• Run Oracle enhanced adapter unit tests using Travis CI [#789]

• Upgrade travis-oracle to Version 2.0.1 [#903]

• Known issues

• Only with JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger with default primary key not returning id [#912]
• Rails 5 : dirty object tracking not working correctly for CLOB [#911]
• Rails 5 : handling of CLOB columns get failures [#910]
• Rails 5 : SQL with bind parameters when NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS is set to ', ' show Java::JavaSql::SQLSyntaxErrorException: / ORA-01722: invalid number [#909]
• Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

• CRuby and JRuby

• Rails 5 : create table with primary key trigger not returning id [#907]
• Rails 5 : custom methods for create, update and destroy not working [#906]
• Rails 5 : has_and_belongs_to_many test gets ORA-01400 since primary key column "ID" not included in insert statement [#856, rails/rails#25388]
• Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]

1.6.7 / 2016-03-08

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.6
• Support Rails 4.2.6
• Support t.foreign_key use the same to_table twice [#783]
• Remove "warning: (...) interpreted as grouped expression" [#765]
• Add documentation on setting read, write and connect timeouts [#761]

1.6.6 / 2016-01-21

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.5
• Address ORA-00904 when CONTAINS has table_name.column_name [#758, #664, #463]
• Only convert N to false when emulating booleans [#751]
• Clean up specs and test documentation [#756]
• Add JDBC Drivers to gitignore [#745]

1.6.5 / 2015-12-01

• Enhancement
• Support schema option to use schema objects owned by another schema[#742]

1.6.4 / 2015-11-09

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.3
• Add table and column comments to structure dump and schema dump [#734]
• Remove serialized_attributes which is removed in Rails 5 [#694]
• fixing bundler dependency conflict with head of rails vs arel 6.0[#714]
• Add note to readme about adapter name when using DATABASE_URL [#728]
• Fixed copy/paste error in README.md [#731]
• Pending a test using virtual columns features introduced in 11gR1 [#733]
• Suppress warning: ambiguous first argument [#690]
• Suppress warning: assigned but unused variable [#691]
• Suppress warning: assigned but unused variable - tablespace [#692]
• Suppress warning: assigned but unused variable - e [#693]
• Ignore .rbenv-gemsets [#705]
• Clean up database objects after unit tests executed [#712]

1.6.3 / 2015-08-14

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.2
• Set sequence name automatically when new table name is longer than 26 bytes[#676]
• Add minimal specs for ActiveRecord::Base.limit() and .order()[#679]
• Use type_casted_binds [#681]
• Use type_cast_for_database to serialize correctly [#688]
• Suppress deprecated message for serialized_attributes [#688, #548, #687]

1.6.2 / 2015-07-20

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.1

• Oracle enhanced adapter v1.6 requires ActiveRecord 4.2.1 or higher, ActiveRecord 4.2.0 is not supported.[#672]

• Unique constraints not created when function unique index created [#662, #663]

• create_table should use default tablespace values for lobs [#668]

1.6.1 / 2015-07-01

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.0

• Oracle enhanced adapter v1.6 requires ActiveRecord 4.2.1 or higher, ActiveRecord 4.2.0 is not supported.[#651, #652]

• Fix serialized value becomes from yaml to string once saved [#655, #657]

• Update Ruby version in readme [#654]

• Update unit test matcher to skip sql statements to get table metadata [#653]

1.6.0 / 2015-06-25

• Changes and bug fixes since 1.6.0.beta1

• Add deprecation warnings for Oracle enhanced specific foreign key methods [#631]

• Skip composite foreign key tests not supported in this version [#632]

• Do not dump default foreign key name [#633]

• Schema dump uses :on_delete option instead of :dependent [#634]

• Use Rails foreign key name in rspec unit tests [#635]

• Add deprecate warning if foreign key name length is longer than 30 byte [#636]

• Foreign key name longer than 30 byte will be shortened using Digest::SHA1.hexdigest [#637]

• Schema dumper for :integer will not dump :precision 0 [#638]

• Update foreign key names for add_foreign_key with table_name_prefix [#643]

• Known Issues since 1.6.0.beta1

• table_name_prefix and table_name_suffix changes column names which cause ORA-00904 [#639]

• custom methods should rollback record when exception is raised in after_create callback fails [#640]

• custom methods for create, update and destroy should log create record fails [#641]

1.6.0.beta 1 / 2015-06-19

• Enhancements

• Support Rails 4.2

• Support Rails native foreign key syntax [#488, #618]

• Other changes and bug fixes

• Column#primary method removed from Rails [#483]

• ActiveRecord::Migrator.proper_table_name has been removed from Rails [#481]

• New db/schema.rb files will be created with force: :cascade [#593]

• Rails42 add unique index creates unique constraint [#617]

• Modify remove_column to add cascade constraint to avoid ORA-12991 [#617]

• Add null: true to avoid DEPRECATION WARNING [#489, #499]

• Rails 4.2 Add connection.supports_views? [#496]

• text? has been removed from Column class [#487]

• Remove call to deprecated serialized_attributes [#550, #552]

• Support :cascade option for drop_table [#579]

• Raise a better exception for renaming long indexes [#577]

• Override aliased_types [#575]

• Revert "Add options_include_default!" [#586]

• Remove substitute_at method from Oracle enhanced adapter [#520]

• Require 'active_record/base' in rake task #526

• Make it easier to spot which version of active record is actually used [#550]

• Rails4.2 Add Type::Raw type [#503]

• Support :bigint datatype [#580]

• Map :bigint as NUMBER(19) sql_type not NUMBER(8) [#608]

• Use Oracle BINARY_FLOAT datatype for Rails :float type [#610]

• Revert "Implement possibility of handling of NUMBER columns as :float" [#576]

• Rails 4.2 Support NCHAR correctly [#490]

• Support :timestamp datatype in Rails 4.2 [#575]

• Rails 4.2 Handle NUMBER sql_type as Type::Integer cast type [#509]

• ActiveRecord::OracleEnhanced::Type::Integer for max_value to take 38 digits [#605]

• Rails 4.2 add module OracleEnhanced and migrate classes/modules under this [#584]

• Migrate to ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhanced::ColumnDumper [#597]

• Migrated from OracleEnhancedContextIndex to OracleEnhanced::ContextIndex [#599]

• Make OracleEnhancedIndexDefinition as subclass of IndexDefinition [#600]

• Refactor add_index and add_index_options [#601]

• Types namespace moved to ActiveRecord::Type::Value [#484]

• Add new_column method [#482]

• Rename type_cast to type_cast_from_database [#485]

• Removed forced_column_type by using cast_type [#595]

• Move dump_schema_information to SchemaStatements [#611]

• Move OracleEnhancedIndexDefinition to OracleEnhanced::IndexDefinition [#614]

• Move OracleEnhancedSynonymDefinition to OracleEnhanced::SynonymDefinition [#615]

• Move types under OracleEnhanced module [#603]

• Make OracleEnhancedForeignKeyDefinition as subclass of ForeignKeyDefinition [#581]

• Support _field_changed argument changes [#479]

• Rails 4.2 Don't type cast the default on the column [#504]

• Rename variable names in create_table to follow Rails implementation [#616]

• Rails 4.2: Fix create_savepoint and rollback_to_savepoint name [#497]

• Shorten foreign key name if it is longer than 30 byte [#621]

• Restore foreign_key_definition [#624]

• Rails 4.2 Support OracleEnhancedAdapter.emulate_integers_by_column_name [#491]

• Rails 4.2 Support OracleEnhancedAdapter.emulate_dates_by_column_name [#492]

• Rails 4.2 Support emulate_booleans_from_strings and is_boolean_column? [#506]

• Rails 4.2 Support OracleEnhancedAdapter.number_datatype_coercion [#512]

• Rails 4.2 Use register_class_with_limit [#502]

• Rails 4.2 Remove redundant substitute index when constructing bind values [#517]

• Rails 4.2 Unit test updated to support substitute_at in Arel [#522]

• Change log method signiture to support Rails 4.2 [#539]

• Enable loading spec configuration from config file instead of env [#550]

• Rails42: Issue with non-existent columns [#545, #551]

• Squelch warning "#column_for_attributewill return a null object for non-existent columns in Rails 5. Use#has_attribute?`" [#551]

• Use arel 6-0-stable [#565]

• Support 'Y' as true and 'N' as false in Rails 4.2 [#574, #573]

• Remove alias_method_chain :references, :foreign_keys [#582]

• Use quote_value method to avoid undefined method `type_cast_for_database' for nil:NilClass [#486]

• Rails 4.2: Set @nchar and @object_type only when sql_type is true [#493]

• Rails 4.2: Handle forced_column_type temporary [#498]

• Rails 4.2 Address ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) at quote_value [#511]

• Address ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected NUMBER got DATE [#538]

• Remove duplicate alias_method_chain for indexes [#560]

• Address RangeError: 6000000000 is out of range for ActiveRecord::Type::Integer with limit 4 [#578]

• Return foreign_keys_without_oracle_enhanced when non Oracle database used [#583]

• Add missing database_tasks.rb to gemspec [#585]

• Fixed typo in the rake tasks load statement [#587]

• Call super when column typs is serialized [#563, #591]

• Clear query cache on rollback [#592]

• Modify default to false if database default value is "N" [#596]

• refer correct location if filess in gemspec [#606]

• Add integer.rb to gemspec [#607]

• Known Issues

• Override aliased_types [#575]

• Multi column foreign key is not supported

1.5.6 / 2015-03-30

• Enhancements

• Support Rails 4.1.10 [#530]

• Remove warning message when JDK 8 is used [#525]

• Support RAW column types [#471]

• Properly quote database links [#556]

• Grant create view privilege to db user [#528]

• Read SYSTEM password from ENV ORACLE_SYSTEM_PASSWORD optionally [#529]

• Show original error message when loading ruby-oci8 library fails [#532]

• Update README that OracleEnhancedProcedures is not auto loaded [#474]

• Fix legacy schema support syntax [#507]

• Peform all unit test when tested with Oracle 12c [#465]

• Add :if_exists option to drop_table [#541]

• Extract OracleEnhancedDatabaseStatements [#449]

• Removed self.visitor_for(pool) method [#501]

• Bug Fix

• Fix serialized readonly lobs [#515]

• Do not dump schema information during structure dump [#558]

• Structure dump generates correct create or replace synonym [#453]

• Procedures and functions are created correctly by removing semi-colon [#456]

• Show support matrix of Java and JDBC Driver only when java_version >= '1.8' [#455]

• Update Gemfile dependencies so specs can run [#472]

1.5.5 / 2014-05-23

• Enhancements

• Oracle NUMBER datatype can be handled as Rails :float datatype [#418]

  • Default NUMBER datatype handled as :decimal to keep compatibility
  • Configured by setting self.number_datatype_coercion = :float

• Add link to supported Oracle database version, JDK and Oracle JDBC Driver version [#438]

• Support without_prepared_statements? to handle unprepared_statement [#447]

• Bug Fix

  • Associations with name record do not work correctly since Rails 4 [#435]
  • Skip another Oracle Text test when Oracle 12c used [#437]
  • Tag bind params with a bind param object [#444]

1.5.4 / 2014-03-25

• Enhancements

• Support Rails 4.1.0.rc2

• Allow Java 8 to run with jruby [#383]

• Bug Fix

  • Fix db:schema:dump when foreign key column name is not 'id' [#409]
  • Fix schema dump works when non Oracle adapter used [#428]

1.5.3 / 2014-03-04

• Enhancements

• Supports Rails 4.1.0.rc1

• Support rails/rails#13886 by chainging select_rows arguments [#415]

• Bug Fix

  • Fix ORA-01008: not all variables bound [#422]

1.5.2 / 2014-01-24

• Enhancements

• Supports Rails 4.1.0.beta1

• Support Rails 4 Database Tasks [#404]

• Create sequence when add primary_key column [#406]

• Move SchemaCreation to its own file [#381]

• Remove unused OracleEnhancedColumnDefinition [#382]

• Log bind variables after they were type casted [#385]

• Remove add_order_by_for_association_limiting! [#388]

• Support named savepoints [#389]

• Support self.extract_value_from_default [#395]

• Remove oracle_enhanced_core_ext.rb [#397]

• Remove unused to_sql_with_foreign_keys and lob_columns [#398]

• Remove ruby-oci8 v1 code [#405]

• Bug Fix

  • Move add_column_options! into SchemaCreation class [#384]
  • Add options_include_default! [#384]
  • Use OCI8::Metadata::Base#obj_link [#399]

1.5.1 / 2013-11-30

• Enhancements

• Removed set_table_name set_primary_key set_sequence_name from unit tests [#364]

• Update README to support assignment methods [#365]

• Remove add_limit_offset! method [#369]

• Update Gemfile to use bundle config --local [#370]

• describe does not try super when no datbase link and ORA-4043 returned [#375]

• Support remove_columns [#377]

• Dump views in alphabetical order and add FORCE option [#378]

• Bug Fix

• Fixed reverting add_column fails with v1.5.0 [#373]

1.5.0 / 2013-11-01

• Enhancements
• Add license in gemspec and Rakefile [#361]

1.5.0.rc1 / 2013-10-31

• Update README and HISTORY
• No other changes since 1.5.0.beta1

1.5.0.beta1 / 2013-10-28

• Enhancements and major changes

• Support Rails 4.0

• Desupport Rails 3.2 and lower version. To support Rails 3.2, use Version 1.4.3

• Drop session store support [#219]

• Create indexes automatically for references and belongs_to [#183]

• Use the index name explicitly provided in a migration when reverting [#296]

• Rename indexes when a table or column is renamed [#286]

• Support refactored remove_column [#172]

• Support allowed_index_name_length method [#285]

• Remove schema prefix from sequence name if present before truncating [#155]

• Bumped jeweler, ruby-plsql and ruby-oci8 version [#176]

• Support also ojdbc6.jar for Java 1.7 [#350]

• Support "activerecord-deprecated_finders" [#210]

• Prepared statements can be disabled [#295]

• Ensure disconnecting or reconnecting resets the transaction state [#220]

• Support for specifying transaction isolation level [#226]

• Rename the partial_updates config to partial_writes [#234]

• Deprecate passing a string as third argument of add_index [#242]

• Rename update method to update_record, create method to create_record [#273]

• Deprecate #connection in favour of accessing it via the class [#297]

• Support SchemaCreation [#298]

• Add support for foreign key creation in create_table [#317]

• Add virtual columns support for rail4 branch [#329]

• Support columns_for_distinct method [#340]

• Clear index cache when any table dropped [#200]

• Clear index cache when remove_column executed [#269]

• Dump schema uses ruby 1.9 style hash [#229]

• Support _field_changed? and drop field_changed? [#182 #254]

• Use arel nodes instead of raw sql [#198]

• Raise an ArgumentError when passing an invalid option to add_index [#242]

• Split OracleEnhancedColumnDumper from OracleEnhancedSchemaDumper [#292]

• Unit test sets default_timezone = :local [#184]

• Support reset_pk_sequence! [#287]

• Remove unnecessary pendings in unit tests [#358]

• Bug Fix

• Address ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (5 for 3) [#166]

• Address NoMethodError: undefined method `column_types' [#173]

• Schema dumper removes table_name_prefix and table_name_suffix [#191]

• Add clear_logger to address ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) [#193]

• Use Relation#to_a as Relation#all is deprecated in Rails [#203]

• Address Address test_integer_zero_to_integer_zero_not_marked_as_changed failure [#207]

• Address NoMethodError undefined method `default_string' [#221]

• Address you can't redefine the primary key column 'id'. To define a custom primary key, pass { id: false } to create_table [#238]

• Remove unnecessary DEPRECATION WARNING [#255]

• Assigning "0.0" to a nullable numeric column does not make it dirty [#293]

• Address rake spec abort [#353]

• Correct activerecord-deprecated_finders not loaded if ENV['RAILS_GEM_VERSION'] set [#353]

• Known Issues

• Oracle Text features are not fully supported with Oracle 12c [#331]

1.4.3 / 2013-10-24

• No changes since 1.4.3.rc2

1.4.3.rc2 / 2013-10-23

• Change build procedures
• No other changes since 1.4.3.rc1

1.4.3.rc1 / 2013-10-19

• Enhancements:

  • Allow inserting NULL to Oracle Spatial Data Types such as MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY [#311]
  • Support ojdbc7.jar JDBC Driver [#335]

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Gemfile to bundle update work [#294]
  • Fixed broken links in README.md and RUNNING_TESTS.md [#303 #306]
  • Address rename_table works if the source table created with :id => false [#336]
  • Use expand_path to show VERSION with Windows XP

1.4.2 / 2013-03-18

• No changes since 1.4.2.rc2

1.4.2.rc2 / 2013-03-01

• Bug fixes:
  • Do not consider the numeric attribute as changed if the old value is zero and the new value is not a string [#247]
  • Removed table_name_prefix and table_name_suffix when schema dumper executed [#248]
  • Remove_column should raise an ArgumentError when no columns are passed [#246]
  • Don't dump type for NUMBER virtual columns [#256]
  • Address :returning_id column should be of type Column [#274]
  • Migrated versions should be dumped in order [#277]
  • Always write serialized LOB columns [#275]
  • Truncate the schema_migrations index [#276]
  • Split paths on windows machines in the right way [#231]

1.4.2.rc1 / 2012-11-13

• Enhancements:
  • Wordlist option for context index [#154]
  • Fall back to directly connecting via OracleDriver on JRuby [#163]
  • Allow slash-prefixed database name in database.yml for using a service [#201]
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed explain plans to work with JDBC and OCI8 [#146]
  • Fixed various issues with virtual columns [#159]
  • Fixed SQL structure dump with function indexes [#161]
  • Fixed broken column remove inside a change_table block [#216]
  • Dump indexes on virtual columns using the column's name instead of the column expression [#211]
  • Don't update lobs that haven't changed or are attr_readonly [#212]
  • Support dirty tracking with rails 3.2.9

1.4.1 / 2012-01-27

• Enhancements:
  • Support for Rails 3.2
  • Support for ActiveRecord 3.2 explain plans [#116]
  • Support for ActiveRecord 3.1 statement pool, to avoid ORA-01000 maximum open cursors exceeded (default statement_limit is 250 and can be changed in database.yml) [#100]
  • Added error handling for rename_table method in migrations [#137]
• Bug fixes:
  • Store primary key as nil in cache at first time for table without primary key [#84]
  • Fixed inserting records with decimal type columns (ORA-01722 invalid number exceptions) [#130]
  • Check virtual columns only in models that are using oracle-enhanced adapter, to avoid problems when using multiple database adapters [#85]
  • Don't drop the user in rake db:create and db:drop tasks [#103]
  • Don't add db:create and db:drop when ActiveRecord is not used as the primary datastore [#128]
  • Quote column names in LOB statements to avoid ORA-00936 errors [#91]
  • Don't add the RETURNING clause if using composite_primary_keys gem [#132]
  • Added join_to_update method that is necessary for ActiveRecord 3.1 to ensure that correct UPDATE statement is generated using WHERE ... IN subquery with offset condition

1.4.0 / 2011-08-09

• Enhancements:
  • Support for Rails 3.1
  • Bind parameter support for exec_insert, exec_update and exec_delete (in ActiveRecord 3.1)
  • Purge recyclebin on rake db:test:purge
  • Support transactional context index
  • Require ojdbc6.jar (on Java 6) or ojdbc5.jar (on Java 5) JDBC drivers
  • Support for RAW data type
  • rake db:create and db:drop tasks
  • Support virtual columns (in Oracle 11g) in schema dump
  • It is possible to specify default tablespaces for tables, indexes, CLOBs and BLOBs
  • rename_index migrations method
  • Search for JDBC driver in ./lib directory of Rails application
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed context index dump when definition is larger than 4000 bytes
  • Fixed schema dump not to conflict with other database adapters that are used in the same application
  • Allow $ in table name prefix or suffix

1.3.2 / 2011-01-05

• Enhancements:
  • If no :host or :port is provided then connect with :database name (do not default :host to localhost)
  • Database connection pool support for JRuby on Tomcat and JBoss application servers
  • NLS connection parameters support via environment variables or database.yml
  • Support for Arel 2.0 and latest Rails master branch
  • Support for Rails 3.1 prepared statements (implemented in not yet released Rails master branch version)
  • Eager loading of included association with more than 1000 records (implemented in not yet released Rails master branch version)
• Bug fixes:
  • Foreign keys are added after table definitions in schema dump to ensure correct order of schema statements
  • Quote NCHAR and NVARCHAR2 type values with N'...'
  • Numeric username and/or password in database.yml will be automatically converted to string

1.3.1 / 2010-09-09

• Enhancements:
  • Tested with Rails 3.0.0 release
  • Lexer options for context index creation
  • Added Bundler for running adapter specs, added RUNNING_TESTS.rdoc with description how to run specs
  • Connection to database using :host, :port and :database options
  • Improved loading of adapter in Rails 3 using railtie
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix for custom context index procedure when indexing records with null values
  • Quote table and column names in write_lobs callback
  • Fix for incorrect column SQL types when two models use the same table and AR query cache is enabled
  • Fixes for schema and scructure dump tasks
  • Fix for handling of zero-length strings in BLOB and CLOB columns
  • removed String.mb_chars upcase and downcase methods for Ruby 1.9 as Rails 3.0.0 already includes Unicode aware upcase and downcase methods for Ruby 1.9
  • Fixes for latest ActiveRecord unit tests

1.3.0 / 2010-06-21

• Enhancements:
  • Rails 3.0.0.beta4 and Rails 2.3.x compatible
  • When used with Rails 3 then works together with Oracle SQL compiler included in Arel gem (http://github.com/rails/arel)
  • Rails 3: Better support for limit and offset (when possible adds just ROWNUM condition in WHERE clause without using subqueries)
  • Table and column names are always quoted and in uppercase to avoid the need for checking Oracle reserved words
  • Full text search index creation (add_context_index and remove_context_index methods in migrations and #contains method in ActiveRecord models)
  • add_index and remove_index give just warnings on wrong index names (new expected behavior in Rails 2.3.8 and 3.0.0)
  • :tablespace and :options options for create_table and add_index
• Workarounds:
  • Rails 3: set ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhancedAdapter.cache_columns = true in initializer file for all environments (to avoid too many data dictionary queries from Arel)
  • Rails 2.3: patch several ActiveRecord methods to work correctly with quoted table names in uppercase (see oracle_enhanced_activerecord_patches.rb). These patches are already included in Rails 3.0.0.beta4.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixes for schema purge (drop correctly materialized views)
  • Fixes for schema dump and structure dump (use correct statement separator)
  • Only use Oracle specific schema dump for Oracle connections

1.2.4 / 2010-02-23

• Enhancements:
  • rake db:test:purge will drop all schema objects from test schema (including views, synonyms, packages, functions, procedures) - they should be always reloaded before tests run if necessary
  • added views, synonyms, packages, functions, procedures, indexes, triggers, types, primary, unique and foreign key constraints to structure dump
  • added :temporary option for create_table to create temporary tables
  • added :tablespace option for add_index
  • support function based indexes in schema dump
  • support JNDI database connections in JRuby
  • check ruby-oci8 minimum version 2.0.3
  • added savepoints support (nested ActiveRecord transactions)
• Bug fixes:
  • typecast returned BigDecimal integer values to Fixnum or Bignum (to avoid issues with _before_type_cast values for id attributes because _before_type_cast is used in form helpers)
  • clear table columns cache after columns definition change in migrations

1.2.3 / 2009-12-09

• Enhancements
  • support fractional seconds in TIMESTAMP values
  • support for ActiveRecord 2.3.5
  • use ENV['TZ'] to set database session time zone (as a result DATE and TIMESTAMP values are retrieved with correct time zone)
  • added cache_columns adapter option
  • added current_user adapter method
  • added set_integer_columns and set_string_columns ActiveRecord model class methods
• Bug fixes:
  • do not raise exception if ENV['PATH'] is nil
  • do not add change_table behavior for ActiveRecord 2.0 (to avoid exception during loading)
  • move foreign key definitions after definition of all tables in schema.rb (to avoid definition of foreign keys before all tables are created)
  • changed timestamp format mask to use ':' before fractional seconds (workaround to avoid table detection in tables_in_string method in ActiveRecord associations.rb file)
  • fixed custom create/update/delete methods with ActiveRecord 2.3+ and timestamps
  • do not call oracle_enhanced specific schema dump methods when using other database adapters

1.2.2 / 2009-09-28

• Enhancements
  • improved RDoc documentation of public methods
  • structure dump optionally (database.yml environment has db_stored_code: yes) extracts packages, procedures, functions, views, triggers and synonyms
  • automatically generated too long index names are shortened down to 30 characters
  • create tables with primary key triggers
  • use 'set_sequence_name :autogenerated' for inserting into legacy tables with trigger populated primary keys
  • access to tables over database link (need to define local synonym to remote table and use local synonym in set_table_name)
  • [JRuby] support JDBC connection using TNS_ADMIN environment variable and TNS database alias
  • changed cursor_sharing option default from 'similar' to 'force'
  • optional dbms_output logging to ActiveRecord log file (requires ruby-plsql gem)
  • use add_foreign_key and remove_foreign_key to define foreign key constraints (the same syntax as in http://github.com/matthuhiggins/foreigner and similar to http://github.com/eyestreet/active_record_oracle_extensions)
  • raise RecordNotUnique and InvalidForeignKey exceptions if caused by corresponding ORA errors (these new exceptions are supported just by current ActiveRecord master branch)
  • implemented disable_referential_integrity (enables safe loading of fixtures in schema with foreign key constraints)
  • use add_synonym and remove_synonym to define database synonyms
  • add_foreign_key and add_synonym are also exported to schema.rb
• Bug fixes:
  • [JRuby] do not raise LoadError if ojdbc14.jar cannot be required (rely on application server to add it to class path)
  • [JRuby] 'execute' can be used to create triggers with :NEW reference
  • support create_table without a block
  • support create_table with Symbol table name
  • use ActiveRecord functionality to do time zone conversion
  • rake tasks such as db:test:clone are redefined only if oracle_enhanced is current adapter in use
  • VARCHAR2 and CHAR column sizes are defined in characters and not in bytes (expected behavior from ActiveRecord)
  • set_date_columns, set_datetime_columns, ignore_table_columns will work after reestablishing connection
  • ignore :limit option for :text and :binary columns in migrations
  • patches for ActiveRecord schema dumper to remove table prefixes and suffixes from schema.rb

1.2.1 / 2009-06-07

• Enhancements
  • caching of table indexes query which makes schema dump much faster
• Bug fixes:
  • return Date (and not DateTime) values for :date column value before year 1970
  • fixed after_create/update/destroy callbacks with plsql custom methods
  • fixed creation of large integers in JRuby
  • Made test tasks respect RAILS_ENV
  • fixed support for composite primary keys for tables with LOBs

1.2.0 / 2009-03-22

• Enhancements
  • support for JRuby and JDBC
  • support for Ruby 1.9.1 and ruby-oci8 2.0
  • support for Rails 2.3
  • quoting of Oracle reserved words in table names and column names
  • emulation of OracleAdapter (for ActiveRecord unit tests)
• Bug fixes:
  • several bug fixes that were identified during running of ActiveRecord unit tests

1.1.9 / 2009-01-02

• Enhancements
  • Added support for table and column comments in migrations
  • Added support for specifying sequence start values
  • Added :privilege option (e.g. :SYSDBA) to ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
• Bug fixes:
  • Do not mark empty decimals, strings and texts (stored as NULL in database) as changed when reassigning them (starting from Rails 2.1)
  • Create booleans as VARCHAR2(1) columns if emulate_booleans_from_strings is true

1.1.8 / 2008-10-10

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed storing of serialized LOB columns
  • Prevent from SQL injection in :limit and :offset
  • Order by LOB columns (by replacing column with function which returns first 100 characters of LOB)
  • Sequence creation for tables with non-default primary key in create_table block
  • Do count distinct workaround only when composite_primary_keys gem is used (otherwise count distinct did not work with ActiveRecord 2.1.1)
  • Fixed rake db:test:clone_structure task (see http://rsim.lighthouseapp.com/projects/11468/tickets/11-rake-dbtestclone_structure-fails-in-117)
  • Fixed bug when ActiveRecord::Base.allow_concurrency = true (see http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/11134)

1.1.7 / 2008-08-20

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed that adapter works without ruby-plsql gem (in this case just custom create/update/delete methods are not available)

1.1.6 / 2008-08-19

• Enhancements:
  • Added support for set_date_columns and set_datetime_columns
  • Added support for set_boolean_columns
  • Added support for schema prefix in set_table_name (removed table name quoting)
  • Added support for NVARCHAR2 column type
• Bug fixes:
  • Do not call write_lobs callback when custom create or update methods are defined

1.1.5 / 2008-07-27

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed that write_lobs callback works with partial_updates enabled (added additional record lock before writing BLOB data to database)
• Enhancements:
  • Changed SQL SELECT in indexes method so that it will execute faster on some large data dictionaries
  • Support for other date and time formats when assigning string to :date or :datetime column

1.1.4 / 2008-07-14

• Enhancements:
  • Date/Time quoting changes to support composite_primary_keys
  • Added additional methods that are used by composite_primary_keys

1.1.3 / 2008-07-10

• Enhancements:
  • Added support for custom create, update and delete methods when working with legacy databases where PL/SQL API should be used for create, update and delete operations

1.1.2 / 2008-07-08

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed after_save callback addition for session store in ActiveRecord version 2.0.2
  • Changed date column name recognition - now should match regex /(^|)date(|$)/i (previously "updated_at" was recognized as :date column and not as :datetime)

1.1.1 / 2008-06-28

• Enhancements:
  • Added ignore_table_columns option
  • Added support for TIMESTAMP columns (without fractional seconds)
  • NLS_DATE_FORMAT and NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT independent DATE and TIMESTAMP columns support
• Bug fixes:
  • Checks if CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore::Session does not have enhanced_write_lobs callback before adding it (Rails 2.0 does not add this callback, Rails 2.1 does)

1.1.0 / 2008-05-05

• Forked from original activerecord-oracle-adapter-1.0.0.9216
• Renamed oracle adapter to oracle_enhanced adapter
  • Added "enhanced" to method and class definitions so that oracle_enhanced and original oracle adapter could be used simultaniously
  • Added Rails rake tasks as a copy from original oracle tasks
• Enhancements:
  • Improved perfomance of schema dump methods when used on large data dictionaries
  • Added LOB writing callback for sessions stored in database
  • Added emulate_dates_by_column_name option
  • Added emulate_integers_by_column_name option
  • Added emulate_booleans_from_strings option