libgda 2.99.3, 2007-01-23

 - Build fixes:
   - With gamin/fam. (Murray Cumming)
   - removed unnecessary libxslt dependency. (Vivien Malerba)
   - gda-sharp binding fixes. (Vivien Malerba)
   - Fixed many compiler warnings. (Murray Cumming)
   - Replace use of deprecated sys_errlist() with strerror().
     (Joseph Sacco, Bug #353729)
   - Win32 build fixes. (yselkowitz, Bug #314732)
   - Darwin (MacOS X) build fixes. (Min Sik Kim, Bug #382933)
 - GdaConfig: Handle the GDA_DSN_LIST_IN_MEMORY environment variable.
   When defined, initial DSN list will be loaded from the filename specified 
   in that environment variable, and the DSN list modifications will not be 
   written to a file. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaQueryFieldValue: can now render parameters in SQL with the :param_name 
   syntax, as used by Oracle. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaBlobOp: New object, for improved blob handling. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaQuarkList: gda_quark_list_add_from_string(): 
   Prevent a crash when the connection string has a final ; character.
   (Andrea Zagli, Bug #317831)
 - GdaQuery:
   - Allow use of derived types, for language bindings. (Armin Burgmeier)
   - Avoid memory corruption. (Chris Shoemaker, Bug #341061)
 - GdaQueryFieldField: The field_name property is now readable. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaServerProvider:
   - Added the escape_string() and unescape_string() virtual methods. (Vivien Malerba)
   - Removed unimplemented gda_server_provider_create_blob() and 
     gda_server_provider_fetch_blob_by_id() functions.  (Murray Cumming)
 - Removed unused "prop" properties. (Murray Cumming)
 - Spelling and grammar corrections. (Clytie Siddall, bug #352122)

 - Providers:
   - FreeTDS: Build fixes. (Leonardo Boshell)
   - MySQL:
     - Slight speed optimization. (Esteban Sanchez)
     - Fixed a bug with FK reporting in the CONSTRAINTS schema report.
       Added the "bit" data type as a synonym to "tinyint"
       removed GDA_TYPE_BLOB reference as MySQL does not support blobs.
       (Vivien Malerba)
   - Oracle: Major improvments, including blob handling. (Vivien Malerba)
   - Postgres
     - Fix failure of current transaction when trying to delete a 
     nonexisting blob Oid
     - Improved GdaBinary handling.
     (Vivien Malerba)
   - Sqlite: Update Sqlite sources to 3.3.10.
   - BDB and ODBC: Correct a cast (Hans de Goede, bug #366694)