Orafce News - History of user-visible changes Copyright (C) 2008-2022 Orafce Global Development Group Version 4.5.0 - 5 Aug 2023 * partial rewriting of dbms_pipe. Now, the synchronization is based on signals instead short sleeping. New method is significantly faster. Version 4.0.0 - 2 Nov 2022 * removed support for PostgreSQL 9.6 and 10 * merged orafce_sql project - implementation of dbms_sql package Version 3.24.0 - 31 Jul 2022 * fixed badly used plain TOAST strategy of types varchar2 and nvarchar2 Version 3.22.0 - 22 Jun 2022 * deuglification - move all objects from public and pg_catalog to oracle schema Version 3.14.0 - 22. Dec 2020 * conversion function unistr * bugfix - allows binary upgrade Version 3.13.4 - 31. May 2020 * enable utl_file on MS Version 3.12.0 - 18. May 2020 * trigger functions oracle.replace_empty_strings and oracle.replace_null_strings & remove support for 9.4 Version 3.11.0 - 30. Mar 2020 * named paths in utl_file package Version 3.9.0 - 14. Feb 2020 * minor enhancing user_constraints view Version 3.8.0 - 22. May 2019 * PostgreSQL 12 support Version 3.7.0 - 7. Dec 2018 * possibility to better emulate || operator for varchar2 and nvarchar2 types * few bugfixes * only PostgreSQL 9.4 and newer are supported * support for PostgreSQL 11, current master branch (future PostgreSQL 12) is supported too Version 3.6.0 * some Oracle views - user_tab_columns, user_tables, user_objects, ... * support Oracle bad used lpad and nvl functions Version 3.5.0 * fix of important issue - missing IMMUTABLE flag for functions ltrim, btrim, rtrim, lpad, rpad Version 3.4.0 - 2017-03-14 * new aggregate function wm_concat * PostgreSQL 9.6, 10 are supported well Version 3.2.0 - 2016-01-xx * remove support for 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1 (only 9.2 and higher are supported) * new functions: sysdate, sessiontimezone, dbtimezone Version 3.1 - 2015-07-11 * remove support for 8.2 * add support for 9.5 * change the releasion number system * new functions: to_single_byte, to_multi_byte, nanvl, length, ltrim, btrim, rtrim, lpad, rpad Version 3.0.10 - 1. Jan 2015 * fix compilation issue in new code for Pg <= 9.1 Version 3.0.9 - 27. Dec 2014 * new Varchar2 and Nvarchar2 types * enhanced oracle.substr function * fix PGXN related issues in process Version 3.0.7 - 27. Jul 2014 * PostgreSQL 9.4 compilation * new datatype and related functions: oracle.date Version 3.0.6 - 8. Sep 2013 * PostgreSQL 9.3 compilation * some cleaning, fixes, much more regress tests Version 3.0.5 - X Dec 2012 * PostgreSQL 9.1/9.2 compilation * ... TODO ...