the ability to have strings up to 32k characters. This implies that using
setinputsizes() is necessary if a long string type is desired as this will not
occur automatically when the string exceeds 4000 characters. Tests are tidied
up to remove the "p_" prefix from all bind variables.
are available in Python 2.3 and up and greatly simplify the code surrounding
thread handling in callbacks made by Oracle. The original code must have had
some small issue in it that was tweaked under high load. Thanks to Calvin S.
for noting the issue and supplying the suggested fix.
deprecating allocelems (replaced by numElements) and maxlength (replaced by
bufferSize); avoid increasing memory allocation for strings when using variable
width character sets and increasing the number of elements in a variable during
executemany(). Thanks to Don Reid for pointing out this issue.
