General Information
libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl. Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework.
In order to utilize the libdbi framework, you need to install drivers for a particular type of database. The drivers officially supported by libdbi are split off into the libdbi-drivers project. The current version of libdbi (0.8.3) is supposed to work with any 0.8.x release of libdbi-drivers. Currently the following database engines are supported:
- Firebird/Interbase
- FreeTDS (provides access to MS SQL Server and Sybase)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite/SQLite3
The following database engines are in preparation:
News
February 6, 2008
libdbi version 0.8.3 offers improved error handling, some additional string escaping functions, and a couple of minor bugfixes.
November 12, 2007
Debian packages for "etch" (i386 and amd64) are now available. For further information, see the Download page.
February 20, 2007
libdbi version 0.8.2 adds support for timezones in TIME and DATETIME types and improves error handling. Some memory leaks were plugged. The configure switch "--disable-docs" allows to build libdbi from the CVS sources without having the SGML toolchain for the docs installed.
November 21, 2005
A new Cygwin binary tarball containing libdbi-0.8.1 as well as the libdbi-drivers-0.8.1 drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQlite 2.8.x is available here. Remember that this is not a real Cygwin package, but a simple tarball that you should untar in /. It will install libdbi, the drivers, and all docs in the /usr/local hierarchy.
September 29, 2005
Thanks to David Nebauer, we now have our own Debian repository for up-to-date libdbi and libdbi-drivers packages. See the Download page for instructions.
September 28, 2005
libdbi version 0.8.1 fixes a critical bug in some of the string retrieval functions which would cause an empty string to be returned as NULL.
August 29, 2005
libdbi version 0.8.0 is available for download