SQL Relay 0.49 is now available.
This release features the addition of extension modules for password encryption and logging. Logging was actually added in the previous release but it has been expanded and documented in this release.
See Password Encryption Modules and Logger Modules for more information.
The build process has been improved as well.
Lots of code was reorganized to be easier to maintain and to compile faster. For many years the configure script would erroneously include "-pthread" in the compile commands on platforms that don't support it. That has been fixed.
-Werror has been added to default build for most components as well and various issues revealed by it have been fixed.
The windows make.bat script has been refactored too and now supports both regular and CLR builds.
The client-server protocol has been refactored to improve performance. Two client-server round trips have been removed. One after authentication and another after the listener-connection handoff. All client-server commands can run in a single round trip now.
The handoff="reconnect" parameter has been replaced with handoff="proxy". In the past, if handoff="reconnect" then the client was told to disconnect from the listener and reconnect to an available connection daemon. Now, if handoff="pass" is unsupported, the listener just proxies the client, ferrying data back and forth between it and the server. This causes the listener/connection relationship to be completely transparent to the client and removes a client-server round-trip.
An very primitive ODBC driver has long been included in the source tree. It has been improved significantly in this release and can now be used with the isql program included with unixODBC and iODBC and with the henplus JDBC client using the JDBC-ODBC bridge. The driver still lacks many features, hasn't been tested much beyond those clients, and doesn't work on Windows without manually adding registry entries, but it is usable and should eventually make it possible to use SQL Relay with a much wider range of applications.
A few bugs were fixed as well including a bug that could cause problems when fetching from an output bind cursor under a very specific set of circumstances and a bug that could cause a hang if the database login failed.
Client API methods for getting the database's host name and IP address have been added as well.
This version of SQL Relay requires Rudiments - 0.40. Both are available from the SQL Relay web site.
