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Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released with quite a few changes if you compare with previous announcement , here are a few from the ChangeLog: add support for Firebird’s BOOLEAN data type , add support for disabling database-level triggers
Revision history forPerl extension DBD::Firebird.1.38[2024-05-21]* fix syntax error boolean fall back implementation (thanks to RobertScheck)*add support for disabling database-level triggers (gh#53)1.37[2024-05-20]* fall back to sv_setiv when sv_setbool isnot available (gh#58)1.36[2024-05-19]* fix problems withPerl before 5.36andFirebird before 3.0(gh#56 and gh#57)1.35[2024-05-15]* ib2sql_type: ignore nullability bit
* map Firebird's 64-bit integer type to SQL_BIGINT
* add support for Firebird's BOOLEAN data type
* fix a couple of compiler warnings