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4puts {<html>
5<head>
6 <title>SQLite Change Log</title>
7</head>
8<body bgcolor="white">
9<h1 align="center">Recent Changes To SQLite</h1>
10
11<DL>
12}
13
14
15proc chng {date desc} {
16 puts "<DT><B>$date</B></DT>"
17 puts "<DD><P><UL>$desc</UL></P></DD>"
18}
19
drh2cf65aa2001-12-06 13:24:14 +0000[diff] [blame^]20chng {2001 Dec 6 (2.1.5)} {
21<li>Fix for another problem (unrelated to the one fixed in 2.1.4)
22 that sometimes causes <b>sqlite_exec()</b> to return SQLITE_PROTOCOL
23 unnecessarily. This time the bug was
24 in the POSIX locking code and should not effect windows users.</li>
25}
26
drhb8ca3072001-12-05 00:21:20 +0000[diff] [blame]27chng {2001 Dec 4 (2.1.4)} {
drh208611f2001-12-05 00:46:02 +0000[diff] [blame]28<li>Sometimes <b>sqlite_exec()</b> would return SQLITE_PROTOCOL when it
drhb8ca3072001-12-05 00:21:20 +0000[diff] [blame]29 should have returned SQLITE_BUSY.</li>
30<li>The fix to the previous bug uncovered a deadlock which was also
31 fixed.</li>
drh6ff13852001-11-25 13:18:23 +0000[diff] [blame]32<li>Add the ability to put a single .command in the second argument
33 of the sqlite shell</li>
drhb8ca3072001-12-05 00:21:20 +0000[diff] [blame]34<li>Updates to the FAQ</li>
drh6ff13852001-11-25 13:18:23 +0000[diff] [blame]35}
36
drh7a7c7392001-11-24 00:31:46 +0000[diff] [blame]37chng {2001 Nov 23 (2.1.3)} {
38<li>Fix the behavior of comparison operators
39 (ex: "<b>&lt</b>", "<b>==</b>", etc.)
40 so that they are consistent with the order of entries in an index.</li>
41<li>Correct handling of integers in SQL expressions that are larger than
42 what can be represented by the machine integer.</li>
43}
44
drhf5bf0a72001-11-23 00:24:12 +0000[diff] [blame]45chng {2001 Nov 22 (2.1.2)} {
drh5a2c2c22001-11-21 02:21:11 +0000[diff] [blame]46<li>Changes to support 64-bit architectures.</li>
drhc3a64ba2001-11-22 00:01:27 +0000[diff] [blame]47<li>Fix a bug in the locking protocol.</li>
drhf5bf0a72001-11-23 00:24:12 +0000[diff] [blame]48<li>Fix a bug that could (rarely) cause the database to become
49 unreadable after a DROP TABLE due to corruption to the SQLITE_MASTER
50 table.</li>
51<li>Change the code so that version 2.1.1 databases that were rendered
52 unreadable by the above bug can be read by this version of
53 the library even though the SQLITE_MASTER table is (slightly)
54 corrupted.</li>
drh5a2c2c22001-11-21 02:21:11 +0000[diff] [blame]55}
56
drhf6e515b2001-11-13 19:36:55 +0000[diff] [blame]57chng {2001 Nov 13 (2.1.1)} {
58<li>Bug fix: Sometimes arbirary strings were passed to the callback
59 function when the actual value of a column was NULL.</li>
60}
61
drh7900ead2001-11-12 13:51:43 +0000[diff] [blame]62chng {2001 Nov 12 (2.1.0)} {
drh80ff32f2001-11-04 18:32:46 +0000[diff] [blame]63<li>Change the format of data records so that records up to 16MB in size
64 can be stored.</li>
drh17e24df2001-11-06 14:10:41 +0000[diff] [blame]65<li>Change the format of indices to allow for better query optimization.</li>
66<li>Implement the "LIMIT ... OFFSET ..." clause on SELECT statements.</li>
drh80ff32f2001-11-04 18:32:46 +0000[diff] [blame]67}
68
drh0f246782001-11-03 23:59:16 +0000[diff] [blame]69chng {2001 Nov 3 (2.0.8)} {
70<li>Made selected parameters in API functions <b>const</b>. This should
71 be fully backwards compatible.</li>
drh33f51c92001-10-31 15:44:46 +0000[diff] [blame]72<li>Documentation updates</li>
drha8b38d22001-11-01 14:41:34 +0000[diff] [blame]73<li>Simplify the design of the VDBE by restricting the number of sorters
74 and lists to 1.
drhf5bf0a72001-11-23 00:24:12 +0000[diff] [blame]75 In practice, no more than one sorter and one list was ever used anyhow.
drha8b38d22001-11-01 14:41:34 +0000[diff] [blame]76 </li>
drh33f51c92001-10-31 15:44:46 +0000[diff] [blame]77}
78
drh6d4abfb2001-10-22 02:58:08 +0000[diff] [blame]79chng {2001 Oct 21 (2.0.7)} {
80<li>Any UTF-8 character or ISO8859 character can be used as part of
81 an identifier.</li>
82<li>Patches from Christian Werner to improve ODBC compatibility and to
83 fix a bug in the round() function.</li>
84<li>Plug some memory leaks that use to occur if malloc() failed.
85 We have been and continue to be memory leak free as long as
86 malloc() works.</li>
87<li>Changes to some test scripts so that they work on Windows in
88 addition to Unix.</li>
drh01a34662001-10-20 12:30:10 +0000[diff] [blame]89}
90
drh6a535342001-10-19 16:44:56 +0000[diff] [blame]91chng {2001 Oct 19 (2.0.6)} {
92<li>Added the EMPTY_RESULT_CALLBACKS pragma</li>
drh98808ba2001-10-18 12:34:46 +0000[diff] [blame]93<li>Support for UTF-8 and ISO8859 characters in column and table names.</li>
94<li>Bug fix: Compute correct table names with the FULL_COLUMN_NAMES pragma
95 is turned on.</li>
96}
97
drh1bee3d72001-10-15 00:44:35 +0000[diff] [blame]98chng {2001 Oct 14 (2.0.5)} {
99<li>Added the COUNT_CHANGES pragma.</li>
100<li>Changes to the FULL_COLUMN_NAMES pragma to help out the ODBC driver.</li>
101<li>Bug fix: "SELECT count(*)" was returning NULL for empty tables.
102 Now it returns 0.</li>
103}
104
drhe21a5732001-10-13 21:56:34 +0000[diff] [blame]105chng {2001 Oct 13 (2.0.4)} {
106<li>Bug fix: an abscure and relatively harmless bug was causing one of
107 the tests to fail when gcc optimizations are turned on. This release
108 fixes the problem.</li>
109}
110
drhbf4133c2001-10-13 02:59:08 +0000[diff] [blame]111chng {2001 Oct 13 (2.0.3)} {
drh81a20f22001-10-12 17:30:04 +0000[diff] [blame]112<li>Bug fix: the <b>sqlite_busy_timeout()</b> function was delaying 1000
113 times too long before failing.</li>
114<li>Bug fix: an assertion was failing if the disk holding the database
115 file became full or stopped accepting writes for some other reason.
116 New tests were added to detect similar problems in the future.</li>
drhbf4133c2001-10-13 02:59:08 +0000[diff] [blame]117<li>Added new operators: <b>&amp;</b> (bitwise-and)
118 <b>|</b> (bitwise-or), <b>~</b> (ones-complement),
119 <b>&lt;&lt;</b> (shift left), <b>&gt;&gt;</b> (shift right).</li>
120<li>Added new functions: <b>round()</b> and <b>abs()</b>.</li>
drh81a20f22001-10-12 17:30:04 +0000[diff] [blame]121}
122
drh286f11a2001-10-09 04:21:50 +0000[diff] [blame]123chng {2001 Oct 9 (2.0.2)} {
drhff0839c2001-10-09 12:39:24 +0000[diff] [blame]124<li>Fix two bugs in the locking protocol. (One was masking the other.)</li>
drh382c0242001-10-06 16:33:02 +0000[diff] [blame]125<li>Removed some unused "#include <unistd.h>" that were causing problems
126 for VC++.</li>
drhf57b3392001-10-08 13:22:32 +0000[diff] [blame]127<li>Fixed <b>sqlite.h</b> so that it is usable from C++</li>
drh382c0242001-10-06 16:33:02 +0000[diff] [blame]128<li>Added the FULL_COLUMN_NAMES pragma. When set to "ON", the names of
129 columns are reported back as TABLE.COLUMN instead of just COLUMN.</li>
drhad75e982001-10-09 04:19:46 +0000[diff] [blame]130<li>Added the TABLE_INFO() and INDEX_INFO() pragmas to help support the
131 ODBC interface.</li>
drhf57b3392001-10-08 13:22:32 +0000[diff] [blame]132<li>Added support for TEMPORARY tables and indices.</li>
drh382c0242001-10-06 16:33:02 +0000[diff] [blame]133}
134
drh100569d2001-10-02 13:01:48 +0000[diff] [blame]135chng {2001 Oct 2 (2.0.1)} {
136<li>Remove some C++ style comments from btree.c so that it will compile
137 using compilers other than gcc.</li>
drh33048c02001-10-01 14:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]138<li>The ".dump" output from the shell does not work if there are embedded
139 newlines anywhere in the data. This is an old bug that was carried
140 forward from version 1.0. To fix it, the ".dump" output no longer
141 uses the COPY command. It instead generates INSERT statements.</li>
142<li>Extend the expression syntax to support "expr NOT NULL" (with a
143 space between the "NOT" and the "NULL") in addition to "expr NOTNULL"
144 (with no space).</li>
145}
146
drh90ca9752001-09-28 17:47:14 +0000[diff] [blame]147chng {2001 Sep 28 (2.0.0)} {
148<li>Automatically build binaries for Linux and Windows and put them on
149 the website.</li>
150}
151
152chng {2001 Sep 28 (2.0-alpha-4)} {
153<li>Incorporate makefile patches form A. Rottmann to use LIBTOOL</li>
154}
155
drh60c309b2001-09-27 15:13:40 +0000[diff] [blame]156chng {2001 Sep 27 (2.0-alpha-3)} {
drh717e6402001-09-27 03:22:32 +0000[diff] [blame]157<li>SQLite now honors the UNIQUE keyword in CREATE UNIQUE INDEX. Primary
drh60c309b2001-09-27 15:13:40 +0000[diff] [blame]158 keys are required to be unique.</li>
159<li>File format changed back to what it was for alpha-1</li>
drh90bfcda2001-09-23 19:46:51 +0000[diff] [blame]160<li>Fixes to the rollback and locking behavior</li>
161}
162
drh4aa85c42001-09-20 12:32:53 +0000[diff] [blame]163chng {2001 Sep 20 (2.0-alpha-2)} {
drhb19a2bc2001-09-16 00:13:26 +0000[diff] [blame]164<li>Initial release of version 2.0. The idea of renaming the library
165 to "SQLus" was abandoned in favor of keeping the "SQLite" name and
166 bumping the major version number.</li>
167<li>The pager and btree subsystems added back. They are now the only
168 available backend.</li>
169<li>The Dbbe abstraction and the GDBM and memory drivers were removed.</li>
170<li>Copyright on all code was disclaimed. The library is now in the
171 public domain.</li>
172}
173
drh87c40e82001-07-23 14:33:02 +0000[diff] [blame]174chng {2001 Jul 23 (1.0.32)} {
175<li>Pager and btree subsystems removed. These will be used in a follow-on
176 SQL server library named "SQLus".</li>
177<li>Add the ability to use quoted strings as table and column names in
178 expressions.</li>
179}
180
drhd9b02572001-04-15 00:37:09 +0000[diff] [blame]181chng {2001 Apr 14 (1.0.31)} {
182<li>Pager subsystem added but not yet used.</li>
drhdaffd0e2001-04-11 14:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]183<li>More robust handling of out-of-memory errors.</li>
drhd1bf3512001-04-07 15:24:33 +0000[diff] [blame]184<li>New tests added to the test suite.</li>
185}
186
drh818041a2001-04-06 16:15:27 +0000[diff] [blame]187chng {2001 Apr 6 (1.0.30)} {
188<li>Remove the <b>sqlite_encoding</b> TCL variable that was introduced
189 in the previous version.</li>
190<li>Add options <b>-encoding</b> and <b>-tcl-uses-utf</b> to the
191 <b>sqlite</b> TCL command.</li>
192<li>Add tests to make sure that tclsqlite was compiled using Tcl header
193 files and libraries that match.</li>
194}
195
drhe17a7e32001-04-04 21:10:18 +0000[diff] [blame]196chng {2001 Apr 5 (1.0.29)} {
drh6f63c252001-04-05 16:25:53 +0000[diff] [blame]197<li>The library now assumes data is stored as UTF-8 if the --enable-utf8
198 option is given to configure. The default behavior is to assume
199 iso8859-x, as it has always done. This only makes a difference for
200 LIKE and GLOB operators and the LENGTH and SUBSTR functions.</li>
201<li>If the library is not configured for UTF-8 and the Tcl library
202 is one of the newer ones that uses UTF-8 internally,
203 then a conversion from UTF-8 to iso8859 and
drh297ecf12001-04-05 15:57:13 +0000[diff] [blame]204 back again is done inside the TCL interface.</li>
drhe17a7e32001-04-04 21:10:18 +0000[diff] [blame]205}
206
drhc4a3c772001-04-04 11:48:57 +0000[diff] [blame]207chng {2001 Apr 4 (1.0.28)} {
208<li>Added limited support for transactions. At this point, transactions
209 will do table locking on the GDBM backend. There is no support (yet)
210 for rollback or atomic commit.</li>
211<li>Added special column names ROWID, OID, and _ROWID_ that refer to the
212 unique random integer key associated with every row of every table.</li>
213<li>Additional tests added to the regression suite to cover the new ROWID
214 feature and the TCL interface bugs mentioned below.</li>
drh960e8c62001-04-03 16:53:21 +0000[diff] [blame]215<li>Changes to the "lemon" parser generator to help it work better when
216 compiled using MSVC.</li>
217<li>Bug fixes in the TCL interface identified by Oleg Oleinick.</li>
218}
219
drh0353ced2001-03-20 22:05:00 +0000[diff] [blame]220chng {2001 Mar 20 (1.0.27)} {
221<li>When doing DELETE and UPDATE, the library used to write the record
222 numbers of records to be deleted or updated into a temporary file.
223 This is changed so that the record numbers are held in memory.</li>
224<li>The DELETE command without a WHILE clause just removes the database
225 files from the disk, rather than going through and deleting record
226 by record.</li>
227}
228
drh3494ffe2001-03-20 12:55:13 +0000[diff] [blame]229chng {2001 Mar 20 (1.0.26)} {
230<li>A serious bug fixed on Windows. Windows users should upgrade.
231 No impact to Unix.</li>
232}
233
drhdb25e382001-03-15 18:21:22 +0000[diff] [blame]234chng {2001 Mar 15 (1.0.25)} {
235<li>Modify the test scripts to identify tests that depend on system
236 load and processor speed and
237 to warn the user that a failure of one of those (rare) tests does
238 not necessarily mean the library is malfunctioning. No changes to
239 code.
240 </li>
241}
242
243chng {2001 Mar 14 (1.0.24)} {
244<li>Fix a bug which was causing
drhb8525d92001-03-14 12:54:11 +0000[diff] [blame]245 the UPDATE command to fail on systems where "malloc(0)" returns
drhb0729502001-03-14 12:35:57 +0000[diff] [blame]246 NULL. The problem does not appear Windows, Linux, or HPUX but does
247 cause the library to fail on QNX.
248 </li>
249}
250
drhe53dea12001-02-19 23:48:16 +0000[diff] [blame]251chng {2001 Feb 19 (1.0.23)} {
252<li>An unrelated (and minor) bug from Mark Muranwski fixed. The algorithm
253 for figuring out where to put temporary files for a "memory:" database
254 was not working quite right.
255 </li>
256}
257
drh573bd272001-02-19 23:23:38 +0000[diff] [blame]258chng {2001 Feb 19 (1.0.22)} {
259<li>The previous fix was not quite right. This one seems to work better.
260 </li>
261}
262
drh4f3c63e2001-02-19 18:24:21 +0000[diff] [blame]263chng {2001 Feb 19 (1.0.21)} {
264<li>The UPDATE statement was not working when the WHERE clause contained
265 some terms that could be satisfied using indices and other terms that
266 could not. Fixed.</li>
267}
268
drh338ea132001-02-11 16:56:24 +0000[diff] [blame]269chng {2001 Feb 11 (1.0.20)} {
270<li>Merge development changes into the main trunk. Future work toward
271 using a BTree file structure will use a separate CVS source tree. This
272 CVS tree will continue to support the GDBM version of SQLite only.</li>
273}
274
275chng {2001 Feb 6 (1.0.19)} {
276<li>Fix a strange (but valid) C declaration that was causing problems
277 for QNX. No logical changes.</li>
278}
279
drha2e1bb52001-01-04 14:20:18 +0000[diff] [blame]280chng {2001 Jan 4 (1.0.18)} {
281<li>Print the offending SQL statement when an error occurs.</li>
282<li>Do not require commas between constraints in CREATE TABLE statements.</li>
drh660f68d2001-01-04 14:27:07 +0000[diff] [blame]283<li>Added the "-echo" option to the shell.</li>
drha2e1bb52001-01-04 14:20:18 +0000[diff] [blame]284<li>Changes to comments.</li>
285}
286
drh8c82b352000-12-10 18:23:50 +0000[diff] [blame]287chng {2000 Dec 10 (1.0.17)} {
288<li>Rewrote <b>sqlite_complete()</b> to make it faster.</li>
289<li>Minor tweaks to other code to make it run a little faster.</li>
290<li>Added new tests for <b>sqlite_complete()</b> and for memory leaks.</li>
291}
292
293chng {2000 Dec 4 (1.0.16)} {
294<li>Documentation updates. Mostly fixing of typos and spelling errors.</li>
295}
296
drh8c3052c2000-10-23 13:16:31 +0000[diff] [blame]297chng {2000 Oct 23 (1.0.15)} {
298<li>Documentation updates</li>
299<li>Some sanity checking code was removed from the inner loop of vdbe.c
300 to help the library to run a little faster. The code is only
301 removed if you compile with -DNDEBUG.</li>
302}
303
drh767c2002000-10-19 14:10:08 +0000[diff] [blame]304chng {2000 Oct 19 (1.0.14)} {
305<li>Added a "memory:" backend driver that stores its database in an
306 in-memory hash table.</li>
307}
308
drhbb0b6792000-10-19 01:49:02 +0000[diff] [blame]309chng {2000 Oct 18 (1.0.13)} {
310<li>Break out the GDBM driver into a separate file in anticipation
311 to added new drivers.</li>
312<li>Allow the name of a database to be prefixed by the driver type.
drh8c82b352000-12-10 18:23:50 +0000[diff] [blame]313 For now, the only driver type is "gdbm:".</li>
drhbb0b6792000-10-19 01:49:02 +0000[diff] [blame]314}
315
drh9b1eb482000-10-17 01:31:22 +0000[diff] [blame]316chng {2000 Oct 16 (1.0.12)} {
317<li>Fixed an off-by-one error that was causing a coredump in
318 the '%q' format directive of the new
319 <b>sqlite_..._printf()</b> routines.</li>
drh4c504392000-10-16 22:06:40 +0000[diff] [blame]320<li>Added the <b>sqlite_interrupt()</b> interface.</li>
321<li>In the shell, <b>sqlite_interrupt()</b> is invoked when the
322 user presses Control-C</li>
drh1afad7c2000-10-16 22:11:57 +0000[diff] [blame]323<li>Fixed some instances where <b>sqlite_exec()</b> was
324 returning the wrong error code.</li>
drh4c504392000-10-16 22:06:40 +0000[diff] [blame]325}
326
drh611ad212000-10-16 22:09:38 +0000[diff] [blame]327chng {2000 Oct 11 (1.0.10)} {
drh7c68d602000-10-11 19:28:51 +0000[diff] [blame]328<li>Added notes on how to compile for Windows95/98.</li>
drh7c68d602000-10-11 19:28:51 +0000[diff] [blame]329<li>Removed a few variables that were not being used. Etc.</li>
330}
331
drha18c5682000-10-08 22:20:57 +0000[diff] [blame]332chng {2000 Oct 8 (1.0.9)} {
333<li>Added the <b>sqlite_..._printf()</b> interface routines.</li>
334<li>Modified the <b>sqlite</b> shell program to use the new interface
335 routines.</li>
336<li>Modified the <b>sqlite</b> shell program to print the schema for
337 the built-in SQLITE_MASTER table, if explicitly requested.</li>
338}
339
drh9b0d0a82000-09-30 22:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]340chng {2000 Sep 30 (1.0.8)} {
341<li>Begin writing documentation on the TCL interface.</li>
342}
343
drhe3710332000-09-29 13:30:53 +0000[diff] [blame]344chng {2000 Sep 29 (Not Released)} {
345<li>Added the <b>sqlite_get_table()</b> API</li>
drh98699b52000-10-09 12:57:00 +0000[diff] [blame]346<li>Updated the documentation for due to the above change.</li>
drhe3710332000-09-29 13:30:53 +0000[diff] [blame]347<li>Modified the <b>sqlite</b> shell to make use of the new
348 sqlite_get_table() API in order to print a list of tables
349 in multiple columns, similar to the way "ls" prints filenames.</li>
350<li>Modified the <b>sqlite</b> shell to print a semicolon at the
351 end of each CREATE statement in the output of the ".schema" command.</li>
352}
353
drh6d313162000-09-21 13:01:35 +0000[diff] [blame]354chng {2000 Sep 21 (Not Released)} {
355<li>Change the tclsqlite "eval" method to return a list of results if
356 no callback script is specified.</li>
357<li>Change tclsqlite.c to use the Tcl_Obj interface</li>
358<li>Add tclsqlite.c to the libsqlite.a library</li>
359}
360
drha5c2ad02000-09-14 01:21:10 +0000[diff] [blame]361chng {2000 Sep 13 (Version 1.0.5)} {
362<li>Changed the print format for floating point values from "%g" to "%.15g".
363 </li>
364<li>Changed the comparison function so that numbers in exponential notation
365 (ex: 1.234e+05) sort in numerical order.</li>
366}
367
drhff6e9112000-08-28 16:21:58 +0000[diff] [blame]368chng {2000 Aug 28 (Version 1.0.4)} {
369<li>Added functions <b>length()</b> and <b>substr()</b>.</li>
370<li>Fix a bug in the <b>sqlite</b> shell program that was causing
371 a coredump when the output mode was "column" and the first row
372 of data contained a NULL.</li>
373}
374
drh63e27412000-08-22 18:29:33 +0000[diff] [blame]375chng {2000 Aug 22 (Version 1.0.3)} {
drh80afdca2000-08-22 13:27:22 +0000[diff] [blame]376<li>In the sqlite shell, print the "Database opened READ ONLY" message
377 to stderr instead of stdout.</li>
drh4b1fb132000-08-22 13:43:28 +0000[diff] [blame]378<li>In the sqlite shell, now print the version number on initial startup.</li>
379<li>Add the <b>sqlite_version[]</b> string constant to the library</li>
drh63e27412000-08-22 18:29:33 +0000[diff] [blame]380<li>Makefile updates</li>
381<li>Bug fix: incorrect VDBE code was being generated for the following
382 circumstance: a query on an indexed table containing a WHERE clause with
383 an IN operator that had a subquery on its right-hand side.</li>
drh80afdca2000-08-22 13:27:22 +0000[diff] [blame]384}
385
drhbbd4a752000-08-18 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]386chng {2000 Aug 18 (Version 1.0.1)} {
387<li>Fix a bug in the configure script.</li>
drhea1fea52000-08-18 09:58:51 +0000[diff] [blame]388<li>Minor revisions to the website.</li>
drhbbd4a752000-08-18 09:33:39 +0000[diff] [blame]389}
390
drh303aaa72000-08-17 10:22:34 +0000[diff] [blame]391chng {2000 Aug 17 (Version 1.0)} {
drh167a4b12000-08-17 09:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]392<li>Change the <b>sqlite</b> program so that it can read
393 databases for which it lacks write permission. (It used to
394 refuse all access if it could not write.)</li>
395}
396
drh30cab802000-08-09 17:17:25 +0000[diff] [blame]397chng {2000 Aug 9} {
398<li>Treat carriage returns as white space.</li>
399}
400
drha50da102000-08-08 20:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]401chng {2000 Aug 8} {
402<li>Added pattern matching to the ".table" command in the "sqlite"
403command shell.</li>
404}
405
drh2758db22000-08-04 13:52:30 +0000[diff] [blame]406chng {2000 Aug 4} {
407<li>Documentation updates</li>
408<li>Added "busy" and "timeout" methods to the Tcl interface</li>
409}
410
drhb97bedb2000-08-03 15:09:19 +0000[diff] [blame]411chng {2000 Aug 3} {
412<li>File format version number was being stored in sqlite_master.tcl
413 multiple times. This was harmless, but unnecessary. It is now fixed.</li>
414}
415
drh353f57e2000-08-02 12:26:28 +0000[diff] [blame]416chng {2000 Aug 2} {
417<li>The file format for indices was changed slightly in order to work
418 around an inefficiency that can sometimes come up with GDBM when
419 there are large indices having many entries with the same key.
420 <font color="red">** Incompatible Change **</font></li>
421}
422
drhed380d82000-08-01 09:56:27 +0000[diff] [blame]423chng {2000 Aug 1} {
424<li>The parser's stack was overflowing on a very long UPDATE statement.
425 This is now fixed.</li>
426}
427
drh1050f982000-07-31 11:59:02 +0000[diff] [blame]428chng {2000 July 31} {
429<li>Finish the <a href="vdbe.html">VDBE tutorial</a>.</li>
drh867f9ee2000-07-31 18:56:15 +0000[diff] [blame]430<li>Added documentation on compiling to WindowsNT.</li>
drhd0752602000-07-31 14:10:47 +0000[diff] [blame]431<li>Fix a configuration program for WindowsNT.</li>
drh1050f982000-07-31 11:59:02 +0000[diff] [blame]432<li>Fix a configuration problem for HPUX.</li>
433}
434
drhe1b6a5b2000-07-29 13:06:59 +0000[diff] [blame]435chng {2000 July 29} {
436<li>Better labels on column names of the result.</li>
437}
438
drh2dfbbca2000-07-28 14:32:48 +0000[diff] [blame]439chng {2000 July 28} {
440<li>Added the <b>sqlite_busy_handler()</b>
441 and <b>sqlite_busy_timeout()</b> interface.</li>
442}
443
drh74c360e2000-06-23 19:16:23 +0000[diff] [blame]444chng {2000 June 23} {
445<li>Begin writing the <a href="vdbe.html">VDBE tutorial</a>.</li>
446}
447
drh1fd14a72000-06-21 14:00:39 +0000[diff] [blame]448chng {2000 June 21} {
449<li>Clean up comments and variable names. Changes to documentation.
450 No functional changes to the code.</li>
451}
452
drh6206d502000-06-19 19:09:08 +0000[diff] [blame]453chng {2000 June 19} {
drh7ed19902000-06-19 19:10:28 +0000[diff] [blame]454<li>Column names in UPDATE statements were case sensitive.
455 This mistake has now been fixed.</li>
drh6206d502000-06-19 19:09:08 +0000[diff] [blame]456}
457
drh00400772000-06-16 20:51:26 +0000[diff] [blame]458chng {2000 June 16} {
459<li>Added the concatenate string operator (||)</li>
460}
461
drh61fc2c62000-06-12 12:29:25 +0000[diff] [blame]462chng {2000 June 12} {
drhe91cd0c2000-06-12 12:36:36 +0000[diff] [blame]463<li>Added the fcnt() function to the SQL interpreter. The fcnt() function
464 returns the number of database "Fetch" operations that have occurred.
465 This function is designed for use in test scripts to verify that
466 queries are efficient and appropriately optimized. Fcnt() has no other
467 useful purpose, as far as I know.</li>
468<li>Added a bunch more tests that take advantage of the new fcnt() function.
drh61fc2c62000-06-12 12:29:25 +0000[diff] [blame]469 The new tests did not uncover any new problems.</li>
drh6de4f4c2000-06-12 12:20:48 +0000[diff] [blame]470}
471
drhdcc7c742000-06-09 03:51:26 +0000[diff] [blame]472chng {2000 June 8} {
473<li>Added lots of new test cases</li>
474<li>Fix a few bugs discovered while adding test cases</li>
475<li>Begin adding lots of new documentation</li>
476}
477
drh49c87802000-06-06 18:24:42 +0000[diff] [blame]478chng {2000 June 6} {
drh37f0b252000-06-09 03:52:04 +0000[diff] [blame]479<li>Added compound select operators: <B>UNION</b>, <b>UNION ALL</B>,
drhf5005772000-06-06 22:19:00 +0000[diff] [blame]480<b>INTERSECT</b>, and <b>EXCEPT</b></li>
drh49c87802000-06-06 18:24:42 +0000[diff] [blame]481<li>Added support for using <b>(SELECT ...)</b> within expressions</li>
482<li>Added support for <b>IN</b> and <b>BETWEEN</b> operators</li>
483<li>Added support for <b>GROUP BY</b> and <b>HAVING</b></li>
drhdb25e382001-03-15 18:21:22 +0000[diff] [blame]484<li>NULL values are now reported to the callback as a NULL pointer
drh49c87802000-06-06 18:24:42 +0000[diff] [blame]485 rather than an empty string.</li>
486}
487
drh32aa77e2000-06-03 19:28:48 +0000[diff] [blame]488chng {2000 June 3} {
489<li>Added support for default values on columns of a table.</li>
490<li>Improved test coverage. Fixed a few obscure bugs found by the
491improved tests.</li>
492}
493
drhbed86902000-06-02 13:27:59 +0000[diff] [blame]494chng {2000 June 2} {
495<li>All database files to be modified by an UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE are
496now locked before any changes are made to any files.
497This makes it safe (I think) to access
498the same database simultaneously from multiple processes.</li>
499<li>The code appears stable so we are now calling it "beta".</li>
500}
501
502chng {2000 June 1} {
503<li>Better support for file locking so that two or more processes
504(or threads)
505can access the same database simultaneously. More work needed in
506this area, though.</li>
507}
508
drh7203e282000-05-31 15:35:42 +0000[diff] [blame]509chng {2000 May 31} {
drhbf66fff2000-05-31 15:43:25 +0000[diff] [blame]510<li>Added support for aggregate functions (Ex: <b>COUNT(*)</b>, <b>MIN(...)</b>)
drhcce7d172000-05-31 15:34:51 +0000[diff] [blame]511to the SELECT statement.</li>
drh56d48ad2000-05-31 21:06:30 +0000[diff] [blame]512<li>Added support for <B>SELECT DISTINCT ...</B></li>
drhcce7d172000-05-31 15:34:51 +0000[diff] [blame]513}
514
drhdce2cbe2000-05-31 02:27:49 +0000[diff] [blame]515chng {2000 May 30} {
516<li>Added the <b>LIKE</b> operator.</li>
517<li>Added a <b>GLOB</b> operator: similar to <B>LIKE</B>
518but it uses Unix shell globbing wildcards instead of the '%'
519and '_' wildcards of SQL.</li>
520<li>Added the <B>COPY</b> command patterned after
521<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> so that SQLite
522can now read the output of the <b>pg_dump</b> database dump utility
523of PostgreSQL.</li>
524<li>Added a <B>VACUUM</B> command that that calls the
525<b>gdbm_reorganize()</b> function on the underlying database
526files.</li>
527<li>And many, many bug fixes...</li>
528}
529
530chng {2000 May 29} {
531<li>Initial Public Release of Alpha code</li>
532}
533
534puts {
535</DL>
536<p><hr /></p>
537<p><a href="index.html"><img src="/goback.jpg" border=0 />
538Back to the SQLite Home Page</a>
539</p>
540
541</body></html>}