From 6cea23266b1c309af6d90e2b0a39fc0778a9acc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Kolpackov Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:18:35 +0200 Subject: Document custom database type mapping support --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3110918..0fdda4f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ Version 2.1.0 + * Support for mapping additional database types, such as geospatial types, + user-defined types, and collections. This mechanism allows you to map + any database type to one of the types for which ODB provides built-in + support (normally string or binary). The text or binary representation + of the data can then be extracted into a C++ data type of your choice. + For more information, refer to Section 12.6, "Database Type Mapping + Pragmas" in the ODB manual. + * The session constructor now accepts an options bool argument (true by default) which indicates whether to make this session current for this thread. For more information, refer to Chapter 10, "Session" in the ODB -- cgit v1.1