NEWS file entry for Oracle support

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 Version 1.7.0
 
- * Support for optimistic concurrency. For more information refer to Chapter
-   11, "Optimistic Concurrency" in the ODB manual as well as the 'optimistic'
-   example in the odb-examples package.
-
- * Support for read-only objects, composite value types, and data members.
-   The new readonly pragma can be used to declare one of these entities as
-   read-only. Constant data members are automatically treated as read-only.
-   For more information, refer to Section 12.1.4 "readonly (object)",
-   Section 12.3.6 "readonly (composite value)", and Section 12.4.10
-   "readonly (data member)" in the ODB manual.
-
- * Support for persistent classes without object ids. Such objects have to
-   be explicitly declared as not having object id and they have limited
-   functionality. For more information, refer to Section 12.1.5 "id" in
-   the ODB manual.
-
- * Support for SQL statement execution tracing. For more information, refer
-   to Section 3.2 "Executing Native SQL Statements" in the ODB manual.
-
- * Support for mapping char[N], unsigned char[N], and std::vector<unsigned
-   char> to the BLOB (or equivalent) types. For more information, refer to
-   Chapters 13 (for MySQL), 14 (for SQLite), 15 (for PostgreSQL), and 16
-   (for Oracle) in the ODB manual.
-
- * Query result iterator now provides the id() function with allows one to
-   get object id without loading the object. For more information, refer to
-   Section 4.4 "Query Result" in the ODB manual.
+  * Support for the Oracle database. The provided connection factories
+    include 'new' (a new connection is created every time one is requested)
+    and 'pool' (a pool of connections is maintained). The Boost and Qt
+    profiles have been updated to support this database. For more information,
+    refer to Chapter 16, "Oracle Database" in the ODB manual.
+
+  * Support for optimistic concurrency. For more information refer to Chapter
+    11, "Optimistic Concurrency" in the ODB manual as well as the 'optimistic'
+    example in the odb-examples package.
+
+  * Support for read-only objects, composite value types, and data members.
+    The new readonly pragma can be used to declare one of these entities as
+    read-only. Constant data members are automatically treated as read-only.
+    For more information, refer to Section 12.1.4 "readonly (object)",
+    Section 12.3.6 "readonly (composite value)", and Section 12.4.10
+    "readonly (data member)" in the ODB manual.
+
+  * Support for persistent classes without object ids. Such objects have to
+    be explicitly declared as not having object id and they have limited
+    functionality. For more information, refer to Section 12.1.5 "id" in
+    the ODB manual.
+
+  * Support for SQL statement execution tracing. For more information, refer
+    to Section 3.2 "Executing Native SQL Statements" in the ODB manual.
+
+  * Support for mapping char[N], unsigned char[N], and std::vector<unsigned
+    char> to the BLOB (or equivalent) types. For more information, refer to
+    Chapters 13 (for MySQL), 14 (for SQLite), 15 (for PostgreSQL), and 16
+    (for Oracle) in the ODB manual.
+
+  * Query result iterator now provides the id() function with allows one to
+    get object id without loading the object. For more information, refer to
+    Section 4.4 "Query Result" in the ODB manual.
 
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