From 2ad2e5500dd075db421a516502c9e522fdc34ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Kolpackov Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 17:37:46 +0200 Subject: Documentation for multi-database support --- NEWS | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1636642..e4fd9f3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,14 @@ Version 2.2.0 - * Static multi-database support. It allows an application to simultaneously - work with multiple database systems using their static interfaces (i.e., - odb::::database instead of odb::database). + * Multi-database support. It allows an application to simultaneously work + with multiple database systems and comes in two flavors: static and + dynamic. With static support the application uses the static database + interfaces (that is, odb::::database instead of odb::database). With + dynamic support the same application code can access multiple databases + via a common interface. Dynamic multi-database supports also allows the + application to dynamically load the database support code for individual + databases if and when necessary. For more information, refer to Chapter + 13, "Multi-Database Support" in the ODB manual. * Support for prepared queries. Prepared queries are a thin wrapper around the underlying database system's prepared statements functionality. They @@ -11,8 +17,8 @@ Version 2.2.0 refer to Section 4.5, "Prepared Queries" in the ODB manual as well as the 'prepared' example in the odb-examples package. - * New options, --export-symbol and --extern-symbol, allow DLL exporting - of the generated database support code. + * New options, --export-symbol and --extern-symbol, allow DLL exporting of + the generated database support code. * Support for early connection release. Now the database connection is released when commit()/rollback() is called rather than when the -- cgit v1.1