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  Fixed references to README.clients.txt in Makefile.PL from  John Scoles
  Added PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT for better multi-threaded support from John Scoles
  Changed required version of DBI to be 1.51 from John Scoles
  Fixed bug in 31lob.t from John Scoles
  Added notes on installing Instantclient .rpm to README.Lunix.txt
  Added support for OCI array bind from Alexander V Alekseev
  Added support for select of OCI Embedded Objects from John Scoles
  Added a tip in README.64bit.txt from cartmanltd
  Added fix to Makefile.PL for finding SQLplus for Ubuntu Server (but should work for others) from Martin J. Evans
  Added fix to Makefile.PL for Gentoo AMD64 from Tom R.
  Added fix to dbdimp.c for speed up of Null-Operations from Andreas Behal
  Added fix to dbdimp.c for SQLCS_NCHAR index use on varchar2s from  Peter J. Holzer

* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.19 (svn rev 8002) 3rd November 2006

  Fixed execute_array to comply with DBI standard from Martin J. Evans, Xho Jingleheimerschmidt and others
  Fixed execute_array so it will not throw a Perl warning on undef values in Tuples from John Scoles
  Fixed execute_array so it will take the ora_array_chunk_size DB handle attribute
  Fixed some typos in code and READMEs from John Scoles
  Fixed a few other little bugs dealing with  compatibility with Oracle 8
  Changes to README from Karl Auer
  Suppress warning in 26exe_array.t from Philip Garrett
  Added support for array context aware execute_for_fetch from Martin J. Evans
  Fixed Makefile.PL for an incompatibility with ExtUtils::MM_Unix v1.50 (invoked byExtUtils::MakeMaker) from Dennis McRitchie
  Updated POD to reflect that OCI after 9.2 no longer strips trialing spaces


* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.18 (svn rev 6697)

  Added support for native Oracle Array interface thanks Kristian Nielsen
  Added suppot for LOB Locators from Jeffrey Klein.
  Updated README.win32.txt for Oracle 10xe and new Visual C++ version
  Updated README.lunix.txt for work-araound for UTF8 bug
  Fixed a number of compile warings

please enjoy.

* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 3726)

  Updated README.win32.txt fixed some typos
  Fixed expanded support for Lobs support from Jeffrey Klein
  Added notes on expanded support for Lobs to Oracle.pm

* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 3725)

  Added expanded support for Lobs from Jeffrey Klein

* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.17 (svn rev 2487)   7th February 2006

  NOTE: With this release of DBD::Oracle pythian.com (http://www.pythian.com)
  are taking on the role of lead maintainer - with my support and gratitude.
  John Scoles at pythian.com is now the man in the hot seat for support and
  maintenance!

  Fixed automatic csform setting for some UTF8 cases and for Oracle 8.0
  Fixed truncation error on fetch into UTF8 charset thanks to Honza Pazdziora.
  Fixed INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND thanks to Honza Pazdziora.
  Fixed unicode tests for cygwin thanks to Andy Hassall.
  Fixed undef warnings when connecting with undef $user.
  Fixed undef warnings from $dbh->get_info(18);
  Fixed LOB streaming example thanks to Pablo Zorzoli.

  Added support for nested cursors in select lists thanks to Charles Jardine.
  Added "Trailing Spaces" section to docs thanks to Michael A Chase.
  Added support for binary floats/doubles thanks to Dennis Box.
  Added INSTANCE_NAME, SERVER and SERVICE_NAME as valid connect keywords
    in the 'dbi:Oracle:x=y' short form of connecting without tnsnames.ora.
    For example 'dbi:Oracle:host=localhost;service_name=xe;server=dedicated'
  Added auto-detection of ORACLE_HOME in some configurations.

  Changed "Binding Cursors" docs, clarifying examples thanks to Charles Jardine.
  Changed tests to use ORACLE_DSN or DBI_DSN env vars if defined thanks to Jill Vogel.
  Updated README.vms re logical name tables thanks to Jakob Snoer.
  Removed README.utf8 since the topic was covered better in the main docs.
  Updated README.hpux.txt and restructured examples thanks to H.Merijn Brand.
  Updated README.aix thanks to Stephen de Vries and Nathan Vonnahme.
  Updated README.macosx thanks to Stephen de Vries.
  Renamed README.*'s to add .txt suffix to make life easier for some.

  Changes to Makefile.PL:
    Instant Client support thanks to Hilmar Lapp, John Scoles and others.
    Improved HP-UX support thanks to H.Merijn Brand.
    Avoid risk of sqlplus hanging thanks to Mark Dedlow.
    More reliably use correct sqlplus thanks to Honza Pazdziora.
    Improved build rule and Oracle header file detection.
    Improved cygwin build thanks to Andy Hassall.
    VMS logical name checks thanks to Jakob Snoer.

  The Copyright terms for DBD::Oracle have been simplified and now read:
    The DBD::Oracle module is free open source software; you can
    redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.

* Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.16 (svn rev 515)   22nd October 2004

  NOTE:
  This release has major changes to Unicode support. See below.
  It no longer supports the old Oracle 7 OCI interface.
  It requires DBI >= 1.38 for some of the tests if using Perl 5.6.
  It no longer supports Perl 5.5 or earlier.

  Fixed placeholder names to be case insensitive thanks to Charles Jardine.
  Fixed some LOB test problems with Oracle 8.1.7 by implementing ora_lob_append
    with OCILobGetLength() and OCILobWrite(), instead of buggy OCILobWriteAppend(),
    if the Oracle client version is < 9.0. Thanks to Jeff Urlwin.
  Fixed handling of temporary LOBs thanks to Chris Donnelly.
  Fixed memory leaks in auto LOB refetch code thanks to Dongqiang Bai.
  Fixed reporting of length truncated in error message thanks to Jeff Urlwin.
  Fixed column_info() to handle TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL datatypes
    for Oracle >= 8 thanks to Stephen Clouse.
  Fixed STORE to cache attribute value in handle cache.
  Fixed seg fault returning LOB Locators reported by Raj Chandran.
  Fixed binding to allow overloaded scalars (not for 'inout' params).
  Fixed setting of $DBI::err to 0 triggering PrintWarn in DBI >= 1.41.
  Fixed some edge cases in row cache sizing.
  Fixed truncation error fetching very small numbers (1 ^ -130).
  Fixed Oraperl to not enable PrintError or AutoCommit (broken since 1.13).

  Changed some utf8 internals for LOBs.
  Changed ORA_OCI constant from being just 7 or 8 to being a dualvar:
    in numeric context returns the major.minor version number (8.1, 9.2 etc)
    in string context it returns the full "major.minor.foo.bar" version string.